Knossos

Knossos, Crete. Photo by Picture Phil.

This is somewhere I’ve never been, but I’d like to see. A friend did a comparison of the excavation strategies used by Arthur Evans at Knossos and Heinrich Schliemann. I think she concluded Arthur Evans had one.

Crete is also one of the suggested locations for Atlantis. The idea is that the eruption of nearby Thera caused the civilisation of Atlantis to collapse. It’s an interesting idea, but it doesn’t explain how the Minoan Palace system continued much as it had done for a century after the eruption before falling apart.