The most famous archaeological
site on Crete. It contains the ruins of the largest and most luxurious
Minoan
palace, built in the middle of a large town. The first palace was built
around 2000 B.C. and destroyed around 1700 B.C. The second one was built
immediately afterward , more magnificent than the first. This was also
destroyed, around 1500 B.C., most likely by the terrible eruption of the
volcano on Santorini. The excavations were carried out in 1900 by the English
archaeologist Arthur Evans who then reconstructed certain sections of the
ruins.
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