Knossos: 125 years since the excavations of Arthur Evans TornosNews.gr 24.04.2025 | Heinrich Schliemann, the man who revealed the secrets of Troy, preferred to continue his research in the Hellespont rather than start a major excavation site in Crete, with an uncertain outcome. This does not, of course, negate the fact that the island had piqued his interest. And the famous archaeologist suspected that somewhere above Heraklion, he might find the legendary palace of the mythical king Minos. However, the local merchant and antiquarian Minos Kalokairinos had secured the rights to the plot where Knossos was located, and during the excavations he carried out on the site, he discovered two palace storerooms. Kalokairinos was asking for 100,000 gold francs for the rights, and even the 40,000 francs that the Herakleian merchant of...