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Time and Chance
Biography of Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941), noted Welsh-English archaeologist--together with family history of three generations of his ancestry (to 1781).
Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos
Most of the archival material from Sir Arthur Evans' excavations at Knossos is now in the Ashmolean Museum and Library. This booklet, illustrated with many period photos, shows how the excavations proceeded and how the reconstruction of parts of the palace was achieved. Now in its third reprinting.
Arthur Evans's Travels in Crete, 1894-1899
Arthur Evans gained international recognition as the excavator of the palace of Knossos on Crete and the "inventor" of the Minoan civilization. His Cretan travel diaries throw light on the sites he visited, many of which have still not been excavated.
Arthur Evans and the Palace of Minos
Most of the archival material from Sir Arthur Evans' excavations at Knossos is now in the Ashmolean Museum and Library. This booklet, illustrated with many period photos, shows how the excavations proceeded and how the reconstruction of parts of the palace was achieved. Now in its third reprinting.
Minotaur
At the turn of the century, Evans claimed that he had discovered the labyrinth which housed the Minotaur. But Evans was a fabulist, and his reconstructions a romantic invention. MacGillivray shows Evans in his true colours.
Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete
Before Sir Arthur Evans, the principal object of Greek prehistoric archaeology was the reconstruction of history in relation to myth. European travellers to Greece viewed its picturesque ruins as the gateway to mythical times, while Heinrich Schliemann, at the end of the nineteenth century, allegedly uncovered at Troy and Mycenae the legendary cities of the Homeric epics. It was Evans who, in his controversial excavations at Knossos, steered Aegean archaeology away from Homer towards the broader Mediterranean world. Yet in so doing he is thought to have done his own inventing, recreating the Cretan Labyrinth via the Bronze Age myth of the Minotaur. Nanno Marinatos challenges the entrenched i...
