![]() ![]() Construction of the palace appears to have begun around 1950 B.C., although there may have been structures predating it. “Knossos perhaps began as a ‘first among equals,’ and the relationship between the powerful groups that built the palaces may not have been entirely friendly.” The position of Knossos was not accidental, and Fitton notes that it lines up with a sanctuary located at Mount Juktas to the south.Īlthough the Minoan Knossos palace was excavated a century ago there are still many assumptions that sciences have about the site and the ancestors who lived in it and Knossos frescoes.įor instance, the chronology of the palace is a matter of scholarly debate. ![]() She notes that although other settlements on Crete around this time built palaces of their own, none was as large as Knossos. Lesley Fitton in her book “Minoans (Peoples of the Past)” (British Museum Press, 2002). When the palace was first built “it must have been a remarkable sight, quite unlike anything seen on Crete before,” writes J. ![]()
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