THE publication of the last volume of the great archæological work, Palace of Minos, by Sir Arthur Evans, brings to a close what must rank as the most complete record of the largest single ...

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 ...

Was King Minos from Greek mythology a real person? This article examines the evidence for the existence of his sea-empire.

The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilisation as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. By Sir Arthur Evans. Vol. 1, The Neolithic and ...

The cult sign of the double axe was found engraved and incised all over the "palace of Minos," thus identifying the palace with the worship of the Cretan god, Zeus. Many of the jars dug up bore ...

While working on a new airport, a 4,000-year-old structure was discovered in Crete, and may have been the legendary labyrinth built for Minoan King Minos, LiveScience reported last week.

In honor of the legendary King Minos, he termed the civilization he uncovered “Minoan.” A polychrome relief of a bull adorns the north entrance of the Palace of Knossos. Bull imagery saturates ...

I wanted to see the Palace of Minos with its paintings of flying fish, and to visit the Akropolis. The news, when it finally reached me in Berlin, came as a total shock. The government of Italy ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about Crete & a visit to the runis of the palace of Minos at Knossos. The Minoan civilication has come and gone without leaving the key to its secrets. There survive over 1600 ...

The index of "The Palace of Knossos" stands in a different category. The fact that the history of the Palace, as reconstructed in Sir Arthur's excavations, covers the whole of the Minoan age ...