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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.
Artifacts originated in the palaces of Knossós, Mália, and Phaistós and include the superb rhyton (libation vessel used in ritual purification) carved from black steatite in the shape of a bull’s head.
Evans’ subsequent attempts to recreate areas of the palace have met with intense criticism from other scholars but Knossós is now Crete’s premier attraction and rightly so.
Though there is no documented proof, most Cretans believe that Knossós was the site of the famed battle between Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labryinth below King Minos’ palace.
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.