Above: What the site looks like "today" - What are called the historical remnants

Above: What the site may have looked like "Yesterday" - in 1700 B.C. at the height of Minoan Rule

If history is the first-hand written account of a Region/Culture,

THEN THERE IS NO HISTORY OF KNOSSOS

If history is a set of agreed-upon facts,

THEN THERE IS NO HISTORY OF KNOSSOS

What happens when history meets pre-history?

When written accounts exist yet we cannot decipher them?

The Labyrinth – the physical place – cannot stand alone from the Labyrinth – the interpreted place.

SO LETS IMAGINE

SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT...

Above: Indiana Jones

Above: Cretan Labyrinth Depiction in 1700

Above: Labyrinth Depictions on 3rd Century BC Coins

Above: A prison. The prisoners "walk the indoor labyrinth."

Above: Aristotle

Above: Plutarch

Above: Famed Cretan Caves with multiple passages and famous maze-like dead ends.

Above: Depiction of Minos' wife in the labyrinth underneath Knossos, looking lustily upon the Minotaur.

Above: Aerial View of Knossos

Above: Labyrinth like construction of the Palace at Knossos. Is it the famed labyrinth itself???

WHERE DOES IT LEAD YOU...

This way to Temple

This way to Scriptorium/Office

This way to Labyrinth

This way to The Necropolis

This way to Courtyard

This way to Arena

This way to the Library