The Palace of Minos

The Minoan city of Knossos on the island of Crete is one of mythological and legendary stature. Up until the early 1900s the Minoan civilization only existed in Greek myths and legends. Sir Arthur Evans, along with an excavation crew, discovered the ruins of the city, and a large structure, which he named the Palace of Minos’, after the mythological king Minos of the Minoan civilization. The Palace of Minos is an incredibly large structure …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…Archaeologists have found evidence that contradicts the myth of annual human sacrifice to the Minotaur by King Minos and that of the existence of the labyrinth. The evidence that archaeologists have found actually supports minimal human sacrifice by the Minoan people and there is no physical evidence of a labyrinth existing anywhere within the palace. The actual existence of any type of labyrinth is questionable as there is no physical evidence of one found anywhere.