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Knossos
Knossos is a Bronze Age archaeological site located near the modern city of Heraklion on the island of Crete. It is considered the largest center of the Minoan civilization, a society that thrived in the Aegean during the second millennium BC. The site is dominated by a massive, labyrinthine palace complex that inspired the ancient Greek myth of the Minotaur. Beginning in 1900, British archaeologi...
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Hattusa
Hattusa was the capital city of the Hittite Empire, situated in central Anatolia near modern-day Boğazköy, Turkey. The site was occupied from approximately 1650 to 1200 BCE and is distinguished by its massive stone fortifications, underground tunnels, and the Great Temple complex. It also contained extensive cuneiform archives that have provided historians with significant details about Hittite la...
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