Knossos

Knossos is an archaeological site on Kephala hill near Heraklion in Crete, Greece, occupied from about 7000 BCE into the early Byzantine period and the largest centre of the Minoan civilisation. Its first palace, built about 1900 BCE, was rebuilt after a destruction about 1700 BCE, and after about 1450 BCE Knossos became a Mycenaean administrative centre that kept records in Linear B. The palace's complex plan probably contributed to the later Greek tradition of the Labyrinth. Arthur Evans excavated most of it from 1900 and partly reconstructed it in reinforced concrete.