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	Knossos
		Knossos was undeniably the capital of Minoan Crete.
		Knossos was inhabited for several thousand years, beginning with a neolithic settlement sometime in the seventh millennium BC, and was abandoned after its destruction in 1375 BC which marked the end of Minoan civilization.
		The palace of Knossos was the center of administration of the entire island during Minoan times, and its position as such allowed for unprecedented growth and prosperity as witnessed by the plethora of storage magazines, workshops, and wall paintings.
	www.ancient-greece.org /archaeology/knossos.html (788 words)

	Knossos
		The palace of Knossos was the stage for a plethora of fascinating myths in ancient Greece.
		Knossos was the place where the minotaur - a terrible monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull - lived to torment the bounty of six youths and six maidens who were sent by Athens every nine years in tribute to king Minos' hegemony.
		The first archaeologist who excavated Knossos was (the appropriately named) Minos Kalokairinos who was a native of Crete and had already dug a few areas of the palace before Evans, unearthing in the process a wealth of artifacts that proved the existence of a previously unknown civilization.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/crete/knossos.html (1305 words)

	Knossos, Crete, Greece
		Knossos is probably one of the most impressive archaeological sites that anyone can visit in today's Greece.
		The Achaeans invaded in the 15th century BC and it was their culture that brought the Minoan civilization to its height.
		They spoke Greek, had Greek gods and used Knossos as their canter It was also they who used the so called Linear B script, which has been found on clay tablets.
	www.in2greece.com /english/places/historical/islands/knossos.htm (944 words)

	Knossos
		The Palace at Knossos is the largest and most spectacular of all the Minoan palatial centers.
		The west wing is occupied by the storerooms with the large pithoi (storage jars), the shrines, the repositories, the throne room and, on the upper floors, the banquet halls.
		The palace visible today is actually the second palace of Knossos, more elaborate than the previous palace, built after the disaster of 1700 BCE right on top of the ruins of the old palace.
	www.grisel.net /knossos.htm (2381 words)

	Knossos - Dilos Holiday World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Minoan Palace of Knossos lies at a distance of 5 km from the town centre of Iraklion along the road to Archanes.
		Knossos has now developed into a large city whose population - judged by the adjacent cemeteries - must have not been less than 100 000 inhabitants.
		A visit to Knossos must be completed with a visit to the Iraklion Archaeological Museum where all the items found on the site are on display.
	www.dilos.com /location/13370 (545 words)

	Kairatos Editions. Antonis Thomas Vasilakis. THE 147 CITIES OF ANCIENT CRETE. knossos - Oios. E-mail: kairatos@hol.gr
		Knossos (5 kilometres from the centre of Heraklion).
		Knossos and Gortys were the two cities that were fighting for the principality of the island.
		Knossos is one of the cities that allied with Eumenes B’.
	www.kairatos.com.gr /myweb/ancientcitiesknossos-oios.htm (5788 words)

	Knossos - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		KNOSSOS [Knossos] or Cnossus, ancient city of Crete, on the north coast, near modern Iráklion.
		Knossos later became an ordinary but flourishing Greek city, and it continued to exist through the Roman period until the 4th cent.
		People explore the south entrance to Knossos, the ancient Minoan palace built around 1900 B.C. Knossos is just a few minutes south of Iraklio, on the north coast of the Greek island of Crete.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-knossos.html (401 words)

	Knossos Minoan Palace in Crete
		Knossos, the fanous Minoan Palace lies 5 kilometres southeast of Heraklion, in the valley of the river Kairatos.
		Knossos was the seat of the legendary King Minos and the main centre of power in Crete.
		The palace of Knossos is the monumental symbol of Minoan civilisation, due to its construction, use of luxury materials, architectural plan, advanced building techniques and impressive size.
	www.explorecrete.com /Knossos/knossos.html (744 words)

	Knossos, Crete
		The Palace of Knossos is a few kilometers south of Iraklion and easily accessable by bus or taxi, but should be seen as early as possible or in the off-season.
		The Palace of Knossos receives about a million visitors a year, second only to the Acropolis, and like many of the monuments of ancient times, it is suffering from the onslaught of tourism.
		Knossos draws more tourists to Greece than any other archeological site except the Acropolis and it is estimated that more than 1 million tourists a year make the pilgrimage.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Crete/crete-interest-knossos.html (1305 words)

	Knossos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A portion of Arthur Evans' reconstruction of the Minoan palace at Knossos.
		Knossos appears in the Linear B tablets as ko-no-so with such Greek variants as ko-no-so-de, Knosonde, "to Knossos"*, and the adjectives ko-no-si-yo and ko-no-si-ya.
		Knossos, also known by its Romantic name of the Palace of Minos, was discovered in 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos, a Cretan merchant and antiquarian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knossos (2312 words)

	Minoan Palace
		The palace of Knossos and the Minoan Civilization thrived in the Bronze age (in roughly 3,000 BC) within the Aegean.
		The palace of Knossos was a multi-storied building, spanning five and a half acres of land, and housed not only the King of the Minoan State, but also his advisors, his trade goods, and several craftspeople.
		The palace of Knossos was only destroyed twice in it’s history, once from fire (roughly in 1700 BC) and a wall collapse, the second and later destruction from a major earthquake which ravaged Crete.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/pre-greece/minoan/minoan.html (1077 words)

	Knossos and Crete
		Knossos was first discovered by a Greek amateur archaeologist in the late 1800’s.
		The palace of Knossos was the center of political, religious and economic life in the region.
		Earthquakes in the same period on Crete may have decimated the population of Knossos, allowing the invading Mycenaeans to conquer and rule from the palace for a period of, perhaps, half a century.
	www.emich.edu /abroad/staff/Benita/Knossos.html (1350 words)

	The Palace of Knossos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		he Palace at Knossos is the largest (it covers an area of 20,000 square metres) and most spectacular of all the Minoan palatial centres.
		In the middle of the 15th century B.C. the Achaeans from the Greek Mainland conquered the island of Crete and settled at the palace of Knossos.
		he first excavations on the site of Knossos were conducted in 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos, a Cretan merchant and antiquarian, who brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing of the palace and a section of the west facade.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21123n/e211wn01.html (466 words)

	Athena Review, 3,3: Minoan Crete: The Palaces of Minos at Knossos
		Careful examination of the dating of walls and features at Knossos, however, reveals that this palace, too, suffered significant damage by earthquakes and was largely rebuilt at the start of the LMIA phase, when additional structural walls and embellishments formed what I tentatively call the Frescoed Palace.
		Evans, A.J. The Palace of Minos at Knossos.
		Macdonald, C.F. "The Neopalatial Palaces of Knossos" in Monuments of Minos: Rethinking the Minoan Palaces.
	www.athenapub.com /11knoss.htm (4082 words)

	Crete
		One of the Minoan ruins is the palace at Knossos, founded in 2000 BC It was a vast city of 50,000 inhabitants, destroyed around 1600 BC by earth movements provoked by the volcanic eruption on Santorini.
		According to Logiadou-Platonos the archaeological remains suggest the first palaces at Knossos were destroyed around 1700 BC by a terrible disaster, but what that disaster was remains unclear.
		The small snake goddess is from the Palace at Knossos, from about 1600 BC Crete museum, the bulls head is from the same place and period.
	www.wdbydana.com /crete.htm (1554 words)

	VideoNET: Ancient Greece - Knossos
		Knossos is the site of the most important and better known palace of Minoan civilization.
		Fresco found at the Palace of Knossos, with a representation of the bull-leaping, a kind of contest, probably religious in character, in which both men and women took part.
		Faience figurines of the so-called "Snake-Goddess", from the Palace of Knossos.
	www.videonet.gr /knossos.htm (845 words)

	[knossos] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sir Arthur Evans, prime mover of the Knossos excavations and reconstruction, was present in 1935 at the unveiling of this bronze bust.
		The west wing of Knossos was dedicated to the cult of the mother goddess to which was connected the bronze statuette found here of a bare-breasted goddess handling two snakes.
		Knossos, he continues, was built on a hill upon the ruins of a very important, 7,000-year-old Neolithic settlement and has no fortification or walls because the Minoan fleet protected the area.
	www.webdelsol.com /LITARTS/Literary_Traveler/knossos/knossos.html (5078 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Features - Crete - Information - Knossos Palace
		Legend also has it that the chief architect of Knossos Palace, Daedalus, not only built the Labyrinth to conceal the Minotaur but also made a set of wings for his son Icarus from wax and feathers.
		The earliest palace at Knossos was in approximately 1900BC, with the large earthquake occurring around 1700BC.
		Knossos Palace is clearly one of the most important of Greece's ancient wonders and the current site is full of reconstructed edifices, stairways and relics from the Minoan time.
	www.worldworx.tv /crete/dc/information/knossos-palace.htm (352 words)

	The Little Palace at Knossos \| The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
		The archaeological material under study includes all the published and unpublished material of the Little Palace from Evans' excavation together with the pottery sherds from the makeup of walls, which were collected during a recent restoration work by the KG’ Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.
		Arthur Evans’; The Palace of Minos at Knossos is more of an overall study of the Minoan civilization rather than a detailed publication of his excavations.
		The `Temple Tomb', which is located south of the Knossos Palace was discovered and fully excavated by Evans and John Pendlebury in 1931.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Islands/Knossos_97 (880 words)

	~~Lithien's Labyrinth Link to Knossos~~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Part of the appeal of Knossos, the principal city of bronze age Crete, lies in that symbolic nature.
		The centre of Minoan civilization was Knossos, and archeological excavations carried on by Arthur Evans have revealed the actual palace of King Minos with its court and the throne room, in which the throne of Minos was discovered, the oldest throne in Europe.
		On arriving at Knossos he won the love of Ariadne, Mino's daughter, who showed him the way out and gave him a ball of thread, one end of which she tied to the entrance.
	members.tripod.com /~lithien/6pixiedust.html (602 words)

	Minoans - Knossos and Phaestos - Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Knossos is located in the north-central section of Crete near Heraklion and is by far the most well known ruins on Crete.
		Knossos is the larger site of the two that we visited and has had extensive reconstructions.
		By visiting both Knossos and Phaestos you get a good combination of seeing how impressive these palaces were through the reconstructions at Knossos but also a chance to experience only the original artifacts at the relatively undisturbed ruins of Phaestos.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/j/x/jxf17/greece2000/minoans.html (507 words)

	Knossos
		It appears that the greatest, or at least the most extensive of the palaces was at Knossos.
		Knossos is five kilometers from the modern capital of
		Knossos was still inhabited at this point, but the palace was not rebuilt.
	home.comcast.net /~apollophotos/photos/greece/crete/knossos/index.html (529 words)

	Cnossus / Knossos
		Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus, Greek Κνωσσός;) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Herakleion, Crete, probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture.
		Knossos, also known by its romantic name of the Palace of Minos, was discovered by Sir Arthur Evans in 1894.
		Over time and several different phases of growth that had their own social dynamic, Knossos grew in size until, by the 19th to 16th centuries BC (during the 'Old Palace' and the succeeding 'Neo-palatial' periods), the settlement possessed monumental administrative and religious central building (i.e., the Palace) but also a surrounding settlement of 5000-8000 people.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Cnossus.html (662 words)

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