minos kalokairinos Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/minos-kalokairinos Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Knossos in History & Today http://toursmaps.com/knossos-in-history-today.html http://toursmaps.com/knossos-in-history-today.html#respond Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245904 Archaeology confirms Knossos’ wealth – though interpretation of much of the accumulated evidence is problematic. By around 1400 bc the palace complex at Knossos was probably the largest and richest in the Aegean, the centre of a Cretan (or ‘Minoan’) empire. Art and traded artifacts show that its influence extended throughout the south Aegean and Near East (a Minoan interpreter may have been employed at Ugarit in Syria in the early eighteenth century bc), west to Sicily and north perhaps as far as Samothrace. There was also considerable contact with Egypt: Egyptian motifs appear in Cretan art; fifteenth-century bc Egyptian

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