The Emblem of Knossos
The flagship building of the palace of Knossos is the city. Has 17,000 m² built and lived there about 1500. Crete was the main palace and the venue where the legendary King Minos lived, the most important of all the kings who ruled Crete.
The whole complex binds around a central courtyard and is divided into two major groups, east and west, separated by their access to the north and south. Because of the way of building of the Minoans, these runners are not in a linear arrangement, but are arranged randomly, following a very circuitous route.
The palace was identified as the labyrinth Minos imprisoned the Minotaur, from which the myth of Theseus and his fight against the horrible beast. Access to the palace from the courtyard to the West through a covered corridor, the western porch, where there was a painting in relief with the background of the game of bull. The road went down a long hallway at an angle, the rider of the processions, called thus because it is decorated with a painting in which young people of both sexes, size, carrying valuable offerings.
In these galleries, plaster relief sculptures depict various scenes of bulls, visible throughout antiquity and responsible, the association of the myth of the Minotaur, with the ruins.
In one of the palace buildings, excavated by the British Peter Warren, in 1975, they found several bodies of dead children between eight and twelve years that he was associated with pathological analysis of ritual sacrifices.