{"id":3486,"date":"2010-06-09T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/knossos\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:33:38","slug":"knossos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/knossos\/","title":{"rendered":"Knossos"},"content":{"rendered":"

K<\/strong>nossos<\/strong> was one of a number of cities found on Crete<\/a> that were not fortified, \u00a0leading to the suggestion\u00a0that their construction was carried out during a period of peace.\u00a0 This is in sharp contrast with the defensive design of the Atlantean capital and the warlike attitude of the latter-day Atlanteans as reported by Plato. This single fact somewhat undermines the identification of Minoan Crete<\/a> with Atlantis.<\/p>\n

2016 brought reports(a)(b)<\/sup> that Knossos was three times the size previously thought by archaeologists and had thrived into the Iron Age.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> (Smithsonian<\/em> Jan 11, 2016) https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/ancient-city-was-three-times-bigger-archaeologists-suspected-180957759\/?no-ist<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/span><\/sup> https:\/\/www.tornosnews.gr\/en\/greek-news\/21698-minoan-civilization-capital-knossos-to-reveal-more-treasures.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knossos was one of a number of cities found on Crete that were not fortified, \u00a0leading to the suggestion\u00a0that their construction was carried out during a period of peace.\u00a0 This is in sharp contrast with the defensive design of the Atlantean capital and the warlike attitude of the latter-day Atlanteans as reported by Plato. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,793,899],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-knossos","tag-minoan-crete"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64446,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions\/64446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}