Qualla: Knossos https://qualla.com/knossos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Knossos https://qualla.com/knossos Knossos: Introduction https://qualla.com/knossos/ Stand in the Throne Room and the contradictions hit you all at once. The alabaster seat is genuine - mid-fifteenth century BC, carved into the north wall, with gypsum benches around the chamber where someone once received visitors who came down four steps from the central court. The frescoes flanking the throne, two griffins lying down with their crowned heads facing inward, are reconstructions painted in the 1930s on top of fragments. The 'lustral basin' on the south side is named for unguent flasks Arthur Evans found inside it, which he interpreted as anointing oil - though others have wondered if it was just storage. Was a Mycenaean priest-king sat in this seat after the Greeks took Crete around 1450 BC? Was it the throne of a goddess, occupied only in effigy or by a priestess in costume? No one knows. The room insists on being significant. It refuses to say what it signifies.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/3/b/knossos-wp/sw3b-knossos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Knossos: The Oldest City in Europe https://qualla.com/knossos/ People settled the gentle hill of Kephala around 7000 BC - earlier than Sumer, earlier than the pyramids, earlier than almost anything in the European archaeological record. The first inhabitants were a hamlet of perhaps fifty people who lived in wattle-and-daub huts, kept animal...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/3/b/knossos-wp/sw3b-knossos-evanss-concrete.mp3 0:06 4 full Knossos: Linear A, Linear B, Honey https://qualla.com/knossos/ The Minoans wrote. Their script - Linear A - covered clay tablets, libation tables, gold rings, and pottery, and we have hundreds of inscriptions. After 1450 BC, mainland Greeks took over Knossos and adapted the writing system to record their own language; Michael Ventris deciphe...

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