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Also Known As Cnossus

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Knossos, Crete, Greece
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Greece
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Crete, Greece
Crete
island, Greece

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Sir Arthur Evans, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Richmond, 1907; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist

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