Knossos, the oldest city in Europe, was built by the Minoan
culture and is home to Crete’s most famous landmark, the Palace of Knossos.
Fieldwork revealed that the scale of the Bronze Age metropolis was three times
larger than previously thought and spread out over a large part of the Knossos
valley.Newly discovered tombs contained imported goods, indicating that this
flagship city was a trade hub of the ancient world and a shopper’s dream.
Knossos wasn’t just advanced and spectacular, it was resilient, too. Its
sociopolitical system crumbled around 1200 BC.However, the new urban ruins show
a city that recovered and expanded rapidly during the Iron Age. By 1100 to 600
BC, Knossos was wealthy and influential again, thanks to its trading with
several countries as near as mainland Greece and as far as the Near East and
Egypt.
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