The Ancient Greeks

The Ancient Greeks
ISBN-10
0874118603
ISBN-13
9780874118605
Series
The Ancient Greeks
Category
Civilization, Ancient
Pages
79
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Copley Publishing Group
Author
Emma Lou Thornbrough

Description

A few years later , Sir Arthur Evans , like Schliemann an amateur who invested his own personal fortune in his excavations , discovered a magnificent palace and remains of a still earlier civilization at Knossos on the island of Crete .

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