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Knossos

The Labyrinth Palace
Lost Cities & Ruins
Gateway town: Heraklion
Portrait

Knossos covered twenty thousand square metres with light wells, drainage and storerooms of giant jars, and its administration wrote in Linear A and B — the second of which turned out to be Greek. Arthur Evans reconstructed parts in concrete in the 1900s, which archaeologists still argue about; see the site first, then the Heraklion museum, where the actual frescoes are.

Nearby in the atlas
Heraklion — The Minoan Harbour
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