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THE SITES: KNOSSOS
THE traveller will do well to visit the Museum
at Candia, in order to fix his attention on
the chief objects and learn their provenance be-
fore venturing out to Knossos; but the reader
who cannot see with his own eyes the works of
art, will avoid confusion by getting a running
acquaintance with the different sites and their
characteristics, before studying in detail what
they have yielded.
Of all Minoan sites, Knossos is the most famous
and the most accessible. As early as the sixties,
Mr. Stillman, the American consul at Canea, had
observed on the knoll south of the Roman theatre
at Knossos, parts of more ancient walls bearing
unfamiliar signs ; but it was not until thirty years
later that Dr. Evans, impressed with the possi-
bilities, bought a piece of land at. Knossos and
followed up this purchase with a claim for the
prehistoric site.
The palace, for such it is, lies about three and
a half miles by road south of Candia. Issuing from
the city by the southern gate, the traveller leaves
behind the massive walls, the still complete
bastions and counterscarps of the Venetian city,
which endured the longest siege in history. To the
left is a Mussulman cemetery, first occupied by
THE traveller will do well to visit the Museum
at Candia, in order to fix his attention on
the chief objects and learn their provenance be-
fore venturing out to Knossos; but the reader
who cannot see with his own eyes the works of
art, will avoid confusion by getting a running
acquaintance with the different sites and their
characteristics, before studying in detail what
they have yielded.
Of all Minoan sites, Knossos is the most famous
and the most accessible. As early as the sixties,
Mr. Stillman, the American consul at Canea, had
observed on the knoll south of the Roman theatre
at Knossos, parts of more ancient walls bearing
unfamiliar signs ; but it was not until thirty years
later that Dr. Evans, impressed with the possi-
bilities, bought a piece of land at. Knossos and
followed up this purchase with a claim for the
prehistoric site.
The palace, for such it is, lies about three and
a half miles by road south of Candia. Issuing from
the city by the southern gate, the traveller leaves
behind the massive walls, the still complete
bastions and counterscarps of the Venetian city,
which endured the longest siege in history. To the
left is a Mussulman cemetery, first occupied by