Evans, Arthur J.: The Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustred by the discoveries at Knossos (Band 2,1): Fresh lights on origins and external relations (London, 1928)

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MINOAN VIADUCT SOUTH OF THE PALACE

Vlychia brook. This bank forms the edge of a narrow plateau underlying
the Gypsades slope and traversed by the old and new roads from Candia on

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Fig. 47. View of Remains of Viaduct, looking S.E.; showing Fallen Blocks.

Beneath their way inland. -It is evident that the Minoan built way headed for a
vlychia shoulder of the same plateau, somewhat to the left of the later routes. There

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are signs indeed that, as it followed the slope a little beyond the fourth pier,
it took, at any rate in its Late Minoan form, a slight Easterly bend.