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The first palace at Knossós was built around 2000 b.c. in the Old Palace era, but this was destroyed by a massive earthquake only 300 years later.
Room 2 is the first of two rooms displaying finds from the Old-Palace period (2000–1700 b.c.), including the earliest examples of fine Kamáresware pottery with its polychrome decoration, found in the ruins at Knossós.
The King’s Megaron is decorated with a simple wooden throne, though the antechamber walls are incised with images of the double axe or labrys, so important to the mythology surrounding Knossós.
Pottery intricately painted with marine life, bronze figurines, and exquisite jewels — many of these were discovered in the rock cut tombs of Palace Period — yet it is the mundane and simple things which make Knossós so fascinating.
The first palatial structures at Knossós, and other great cities such as Phaistós and Mália, were erected around 2000 b.c., but these were destroyed by an earthquake 300 years later.