Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the archaeology of the Minoan myth by J.
Alexander MacGillivray, Jonathan Cape, £20, ISBN 0224043528
KNOSSOS is one of the world’s renowned archaeological sites. Thousands of
people visit it each year, scrambling round the huge ancient ruins that sprawl
across the countryside outside Heraklion in Crete.
British archaeologist Arthur Evans was the first serious scholar to excavate
this site. From the stones, pottery and fragments of wall paintings, he decided
that this was the palace of the mythical King Minos. He went even further. Not
content to leave the ruins ruined, he built pillars on…
