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Knossos

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a ruined city in N central Crete: remains of the Minoan Bronze Age civilization
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A fresco of the Prince of the Lilies, which is displayed in the Palace of Minos in Knossos, CRETE
The Palace Knossos It's right on the beach but there are also two large outdoor pools and 25 private ones for VIP rooms and suites.
The scribes of Knossos wrote in Linear B around 1450 BCE.
After five years of hard work, most of the palace was opened up for visitors to come and wonder at Knossos' ancient beauty.
Die artikel sluit af met 'n kort oorweging van die liminale beduidenis van die Knossos Labirint se ligging op Kreta.
The KNOSSOS software considerably reduces the time required: It is about 50 times faster than other programs used up to now.
Of all the peddlers of scientific spirituality, perhaps none was quite so passionately effective as the eccentric British antiquarian Arthur Evans, whose excavation and reconstruction of the Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete began in 1900 when he was 49.
Dnata also offers a stay at the Aldemar Royal Mare hotel in the Greek island of Crete, which is not just the home of the Minoan civilisation and the world-famous Knossos Palace -- it also hosts a fun and fascinating array of festivals.
The ancient Trypilian civilization, discovered in what is now Ukraine, was lost to history for millennia until 1896, when it was uncovered during the great age of archaeological exploration that also unearthed Troy, Mycenae, Knossos, and the civilizations of Mesopotamia; the Trypilian culture predates all of them.
An example is the hemoglobin variant Hb Knossos, which presents as a thalassemia major when co-inherited with the [[beta].sup.0]-thalassemia, IVSII-745.
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