How to pronounce “knossos” in English

His discovery at Knossos, which the newspapers swiftly relayed around the world, would make him among the most celebrated ever.

Heraklion is basically-- Knossos is a suburb of Heraklion, put it that way.

day-to-day workings of the Knossos Palace and its holdings.

And we're talking about Bronze Age and Minoan civilizations Crete and Knossos and ancient Egypt, Libya, the Romans.

So the opening of our book is called "Buried Treasure," and it opens at Knossos on the island of Crete in the year 1900.

Unseen for nearly 3,000 years, the Knossos palace was hailed as one of the most spectacular archaeological finds of all time.

Once their written records could be read, the Knossos Palace and its people, languishing for 30 centuries in the dusk of prehistory, would suddenly be illuminated.

He understood right away that the tablets were the archival records of the palace at Knossos.

As Evans's investigation would reveal, the palace at Knossos spanned hundreds of rooms linked by a network of

Pylos, or Cominos, Knossos, they either are burned, invaded, internal rebellion, earthquake,

All this, of course, was decades in the future that March day at Knossos when the first brittle tablets emerged from the ground.

The result, ko-no-so, suggested a very particular place, and not just any place, but Knossos, the principal

Not long after the tablets were written, the various Mycenaean palatial centers, both at Knossos and centers on the mainland, Pylos, Mycenae itself, some others, were