The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilisation as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. By Sir Arthur Evans. Vol. 1, The Neolithic and ...

Between about 3000 and 1100 B.C., the Minoans created one of the first complex European cultures on the island of Crete ... the mythological King Minos. The ancient palace Knossos is the ...

including the magnificent Palace of Knossos, seat of the legendary King Minos. More recent archaeological digs have demonstrated that Crete was widely urbanized during this period and that Knossos ...

A labyrinth of massive columns and beautiful frescoes, the Palace of Knossos is a testament ... it was also home to the mythical Minotaur of King Minos. The site was restored extensively by ...

The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for ...

Among the cities is Knossos, a great city; and there Minos was nine years king, the boon companion ... he turned instinctively to the palace of Minoan Crete, to that encounter between man and ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth ... with the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete, the Palace Museum is presenting the exhibition Daedalus ...

In Crete, the birthplace of the Greek god Zeus ... In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast with a bull ...

Deadalus creates a labyrinth - a maze - under the palace and ... they arrive in Crete the Athenians are locked in a cell. Later that evening Ariadne - the daughter of King Minos - arrives in ...