The Palace of Minos at Knossos

by Christopher Scarre and Rebecca Stefoff

Book Overview

On March 23, 1900, Arthur John Evans and his staff began to excavate on Crete, looking for the fabled site of Knossos, where an extraordinary civilization, a precursor to classical Greece, was rumored to have existed. Almost from the first shovel stroke, artifacts began to emerge. Evans realized that here was "an extraordinary phenomenon, nothing Greek, nothing Roman. A wholly unexplored world." The Palace of Minos at Knossos recounts the exciting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195142721
• ISBN13: 9780195142723
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10