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Current research on the ancient Greek city of Knossos in Crete suggests that it not only recovered from the Bronze Age collapse that brought down many of the Aegean palaces, but actually flourished into the Early Iron Age.
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These are the stairs in the Palace of Knossos. It was built 4000 years ago, making it the oldest palace in Europe.
This edited article about Crete originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 238 published on 6 August 1966. A reconstruction of the Palace of Knossos by Harry Green The island of Crete, in the Aegean Sea, is barely 160 miles long by 35 miles wide. But it has an importance in history out of […]
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