A labyrinth of massive columns and beautiful frescoes, the Palace of Knossos is a testament to the sophistication of the Minoan civilization that disappeared sometime in the 14th century.

A polychrome relief of a bull adorns the north entrance of the Palace of Knossos. Bull imagery saturates ... on the rising new regional power: the Mycenaean Greeks, who lauded King Minos and ...

such as the excavations conducted by Heinrich Schliemann and others at Troy and Mycenae; by Sir Arthur Evans at the ‘Palace of Minos’ at Knossos; by Carl Blegen at the ‘Palace of Nestor’ at Pylos; and ...