Knossos

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1. Knossos - Noun

2. Knossos - Proper noun

Meaning

an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC

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Blegen found a number of similarities between 1200 BC Pylos and 1400 BC Knossos and suggested the Knossian evidence be reexamined, as he was sure of the 1200 Pylian date. Source: Internet

Cretan labyrinth Knossos has been supposed since Classical times to be the site of the labyrinth. Source: Internet

F.Schachermeyer (1967) p. 144 The so-called "Ring of Minos" from Knossos. Source: Internet

For example, a stone carving found in the archaeological recovery from Bronze Age Minoan Crete at Knossos (1900 – 1100 BC) has a depiction of a fisherman carrying an octopus. Source: Internet

Gere, Cathy Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009), 111. Senior trustee All the excavations at Knossos were done on leave of absence from the museum. Source: Internet

He married his cousin, Harriet, in 1850, which entitled him, in 1851, to a junior partnership in the family business. citation Profits from the mill would eventually help fund Arthur's excavations, restorations at Knossos, and resulting publications. Source: Internet

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