The volume brings together 54 papers dealing with all aspects of the site of Knossos by leading scholars in the field of outstanding significance: readers will find a remarkable amount of new information and new interpretations on all aspects of Minoan and Cretan studies. They range in date from the Neolithic to the Late Roman and, indeed the modern reception of the site.
British archaeologist Sir Arthur John Evans unearthed remnants of a civilization of Bronze Age in Crete and after Minos, the legendary king, named it.
From the structures and artifacts at the palace of Knossos at Kephala hill, elsewhere on the Greek island, and in the eastern Mediterranean, he most famously developed the concept.