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Knossos on Crete is the largest Bronze Age palace site in the Aegean, associated with Minoan civilization and first extensively excavated by Arthur Evans beginning in 1900.

Ancient Mesopotamian city on the Euphrates in Syria (c. 2900–1759 BCE) whose palace archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tablets was destroyed when Hammurabi of Babylon razed the city.

Bronze Age site in Henan Province, China (c. 1900–1500 BCE), widely regarded as the probable capital of the Xia dynasty and notable for its early bronze ritual vessels.

The Palace of Nestor is a prominent Mycenaean palace near Pylos, Greece, destroyed by fire around 1200 BC, which preserved its extensive Linear B clay tablets.