Example sentences for: knossós

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  • 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.

  • Remains under and around the palace show Neolithic settlements, though the first palace was built after 2000 b.c. — later than Knossós and Phaistós — and it revealed no Kamáresware pottery from the Pre-Palatial period like that found at the other palaces.

  • At the far end of the hall you will be able to examine a miniature recreation of the palace of Knossós, completed according to early hypotheses on its design.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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