Pendlebury, John D.: Aegyptiaca: a catalogue of Egyptian objects in the Aegean area (Cambridge, 1930)

may have brought back the scarabs and faience found in the tombs of their chieftains
at Arkades, Kavousi and Vrokastro.

In conclusion, the Predynastic peoples may have entered the Messara and brought their
culture to the south. The Old Kingdom reaches the Messara, Knossos and Mokhlos.
The Middle Kingdom finds the route from the Messara via Pyrgos to Knossos and to
the sacred Dictaean Cave. It leaves its mark on Gournes. The New Empire can be
traced at Agia Triada, Kalyvia near Phaestos, and at the tombs of Knossos, and a
statuette of the period is dedicated long after in the Dictaean Cave; while Egypt of
the decadence from the XXth to the XXVIth Dynasty was plundered for the objects
of Arkades, Kavousi and Vrokastro.

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