You have seen in this session how Crete was known through the Greek myths to early Modern Europeans, who thought that these stories had no factual basis. It was not until Schliemann’s work at Mycenae (Greek mainland) and Troy (Turkey) that the existence of a Prehistoric period in the Aegean was proved beyond doubt. Later Evans began his work at Knossos, in order to test his theory that prehistoric Crete was in fact substantially different from the Mycenaean world. You should now be familiar with the significance of the explorations undertaken by these two men, and what this has meant to Cretan history as a whole.
In the next session, we investigate scholarly interest in the archaeology of Mediaeval-Modern Crete.
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