In this fascinating feature-length documentary historian Bettany Hughes
continues her history of the Ancient World with a visit to Crete to
recount one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. The
story of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth is perhaps the most compelling
of all Greek myths. Just over 100 years ago, English archaeologist
Arthur Evans went to the 'Minotaur's Island' to explore the roots of
this myth and discovered instead a sophisticated Bronze Age civilisation
that had been lost to history for thousands of years. He called them
The Minoans, and the riches of their culture astonished the world,
prompting Evans to proclaim them the first civilisation of the Western
World. But was this view unduly romantic? In the past decade, new
archaeological discoveries have added fascinating layers of complexity
to the picture originally painted by Evans.
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