Knossos and Iraklio
October 4th 2014 04 October 2014
The most well known Minoan palace site is at Knossos just south of Iraklio and we drove there this morning. Knossos was inhabited by the Minoans between 1900 and 1400 BC. It was unearthed in 1900 by the British Archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans and he spent 35 years and £250,000 of his own money excavating and reconstructing sections of the palace. Although we got there ea
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