Multistorey (Tuesday continued)

One of the first things that strikes you about Knossos is the multistorey structure. Even at Pompei, which I should stress is almost 2,000 younger than this site, most structures are single story, much having been lost in the volcanic eruption. The reasons for Knossos's destruction range from volcanoes and earthquakes to internal disputes. Whatever the cause the Mycenneans took over Knossos once the Minoan civilisation had died out. The Mycenneans are the people of the Iliad and Odyssey and preceded the classical Greek civilisation. So to see such structures from a civilisation that preceded the people that preceded the people that preceded the Romans is mind blowing. But a word of warning, most fully entact columns have been reconstructed. More later...