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Modern name for knossos. This article has been rated as Mid-importanceon the projects importance scale. Knossos or ko-no-so was an important ancient site found on the outskirts of the modern city of Heraklion in Crete. The Minoan civilization has been described as the earliest of its kind in Europe 2 and historian Will Durant called the Minoans the first link in the European chain.

Knossos is the largest Bronze Age settlement on the island of Crete and it also can lay claim to one of the most advanced civilizations of Europe of that era. We dont know what the ancient Cretans called themselves. That was the name Evans came up with named for the ancient king.

It is believed that Knossos was first established a place of settlement in Neolithic times in around 7000 BC and then continuously inhabited until the Ancient Roman period. The name Minoan derives from the mythical King Minos and was coined by Evans who identified the site at Knossos with the labyrinth and the Minotaur. Entrance tickets currently cost 3399 while a popular guided tour starts around 1821 per person.

Heraklion was formerly called Candia after the Saracen name for the place Kandaiki meaning the moat that was built around the then. Krḗtē krέːtεː is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily Sardinia Cyprus and Corsica. 1 It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states urban organization works of art and writing system.

Ιn Greek mythology the Palace of Knossos was the residence of the mythical King Minos the son of Zeus and Europa. The Minoan writing system is undeciphered and the name Minoans comes from Arthur Evans who believed that he had found the palace of King Minos a mythical Cretan king who supposedly.

We dont know what the ancient Cretans called themselves. The Palace of Knossos admission prices can vary. The Minotaur and the Labyrinth as recited by Homer.