Explore: Knossos (extinct City)

founded. First of the Minoan palaces on Crete. Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied. Bronze Age began in north Ancient China. Middle

of the island, especially to the south. Knossos – the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. Knossos had an estimated population of 1,300 to

the Knossos Tablets. It contains two works, Leonard Robert Palmer's The Find-Places of the Knossos Tablets and John Boardman's The Date of the Knossos Tablets

of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos. Cornell University Library. London : Macmillan and Co. pp. §92, pp. 215-6

BC. c. 1700 BC – The last woolly mammoth goes extinct on Wrangel Island. c. 1700 BC – The city of Knossos on Crete is destroyed by fire. c. 1700 BC – Aegean

recent excavation at the Neopalatial area of the Cult Centre of the City of Knossos a seal stone was found in a foundation deposit. The steatite seal had

Near East and Mediterranean regions. Excavations from Minoan Crete at Knossos, for example, have yielded specimens from c. 1800 BCE, including one cylinder

settlement found under the Bronze Age palace at Knossos date to the 7th millennium BC. Up to now, Knossos remains the only aceramic site. The settlement

destructions includes other notable sites such as: Lefkandi, Orchomenos, Athens, Knossos, Alassa, Carchemish, Aleppo, Alalakh, Hama, Qatna, Kadesh, Tell Tweini

before the 14th century BC. Most inscriptions are on clay tablets found in Knossos, in central Crete, as well as in Pylos, in the southwest of the Peloponnese