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Rub shoulders with the ghosts of the Minoans, a Bronze Age people that
attained an astonishingly high level of civilisation and ruled large parts of
the Aegean from their capital in Knossos (
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) some 4000 years ago. Until
the site's excavation in the early 20th century, an extraordinary wealth of fres-
coes, sculptures, jewellery, seals and other remnants lay buried under the Cretan
soil. Despite a controversial partial reconstruction, Knossos remains one of the
most important archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and is Crete's most vis-
ited tourist attraction.
