Sir Arthur John Evans (1851 1941) famously excavated the ruins of
Knossos on Crete and uncovered the remains of its Bronze Age Minoan
civilisation (as described in his multi-volume work The Palace of
Minos at Knossos, also reissued in this series). But he had already
visited the island prior to this: in 1894, during his first trip,
he found examples of an ancient pictographic writing system that
pre-dated the Phoenician alphabet later adapted by the Greeks.
First published in 1895, this work, illustrated with examples
throughout, documents and describes these discoveries, and
demonstrates that the earliest finds date from a period before even
the most ancient known Semitic scripts. Evans also records evidence
of later scripts which were subsequently categorised as Linear A
and Linear B (only the latter has been deciphered since his death).
The final section of the book describes in detail the pottery and
other finds from the Hagios Onuphrios deposit.
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