Travel Guide Cnossos

This is where it all began, almost 4,000 years ago. While all of Europe was still living in a protohistoric civilization, the Cretans were already building magnificent palaces and hierarchizing the society to make the power total and legitimate. The Minoan civilization found its most beautiful expression in Knossos which was its true center, making the other palaces simple peripheral states. It is only at the beginning of the XXth century that the palace of king Minos and the Minotaur was discovered by the contemporary civilization. Meeting of two worlds and two times. The Minoans had invented everything, from religious practice to agricultural techniques, political, military and social organizations and cultural patronage. The Briton Evans worked to bring the site out of the ground, and then to partially reconstruct it. This reconstruction, made with sometimes much imagination, is considered as a heresy by certain historians and archaeologists who would prefer that the site remains in the state