Minotaur Palace
by A nice, quick explanation of the archaeological find in 1900.
Minotaur Palace Unearthed
The splendid places of Knossos, home of the legendary King Minos, were uncovered on the Mediterranean island of Crete by English archaeologist Arthur Evans. Evans, who in 1894 purchased the site, has realized his dream with the discovery of five-and-a-half-acre, 800-room palace complex. The site is to from 1400-2000 B.C.-1,000 years before the heyday of Athens One of the rooms revealed a fresco of a charging bull, and other finds suggest that the ancient Minoans maintained a cult of the Bull, evidence for the ancient Greek myth of the flesh-eating, half-man, half-bull Minotaur, defeated by the Greek hero Theseus.
Source: Popular Science: Science Year by Year. New York, NY: Scholastic, 2001.
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