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SUMMARY:The Discovery of Knossos by the Cretan Antiquarian Minos Kalokairinos:
DESCRIPTION:Knossos in Crete is one of the most frequented archaeologi
 cal sites in the world. Visitors to the prehistoric Palace of Knossos 
 are greeted by a bronze bust of the British archaeologist Sir Arthur E
 vans who excavated\, restored and interpreted the monument in the earl
 y 20th century\, thus leaving us with an everlasting legacy on the arc
 haeology of Crete and the Aegean. A few months ago\, a second bust was
  erected near the first one and it shows the little-known Cretan busin
 essman and antiquarian Minos Kalokairinos (1843-1907). Kalokairinos wa
 s the first to excavate Knossos more than two decades before Evans\, a
 nd the first to discover its palace in a brief and poorly documented c
 ampaign in 1878. Although his work attracted international attention a
 t the time\, it was quickly overshadowed by the much more extensive an
 d well-documented research of Evans and it remained entirely overlooke
 d for nearly a century. However\, recent scholarship increasingly appr
 eciates the pioneering investigations of the Cretan antiquarian.
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