Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an
entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign
of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the
focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues
about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos
gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth century, the
first excavators - Minos Kalokairinos, Heinrich Schliemann, and
Arthur Evans - were predisposed to see the site through the eyes of
the classical authors. Rodney Castleden argues that this line of
thought was a false trail and gives an alternative insight into the
labyrinth which is every bit as exciting as the traditional
explanations, and one which he believes is much closer to the
truth. Rejecting Evans' view of Knossos as a bronze age royal
palace, Castleden puts forward alternative interpretations - that
the building was a necropolis or a temple - and argues that the
temple interpretation is the most satisfactory in the light of
modern archaeological knowledge about Minoan Crete.
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