New Secrets Unearthed at Minoan Palace of Zominthos on Crete

GreekReporter ^ | October 3, 2020 | Patricia Claus

[SunkenCiv]

An elegant summer palace once belonging to the Minoan aristocracy at Zominthos on Crete, first discovered in 1982, has yielded many more of its priceless secrets in a recent dig.

It was found in this summer's dig that the original structure may have been up to three stories high and to date back to 2,000 BC. This year's excavations of the building, measuring 1,600 square meters, or 17,222 square feet, have also shown that the edifice contained ramps, a series of apartments and even religious altars.

...the aim of the new dig was to clarify what served as the access to the northern entrance to the main building and to verify what had been discovered through biomagnetic research north of the main building.

This year's excavations disclosed to archaeologists that the usage of the building actually extended back as far as 2,000 BC -- and possibly further. From 1,700 BC onward it expanded into the surrounding area, and this year's work uncovered two new complexes further out form the main building.

The archaeologists now believe that the northern slope of the hill on which the palace is located holds even more historical secrets, and they plan to investigate this area further in the future...

Of particular note is the "Northern sanctuary" from the first complex, from the period of the new palaces. Excavated first in 2019, this area was found to have an altar paved with stones; vessels associated with rituals, including rhymes, were found at this site as well...

Researchers now believe that the subsequent occupants of the building had preserved the remains of the ruined idol after the original palace had been destroyed, and then constructed a new stone altar atop it.

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Immanuel Velikovsky
The Dark Age of Greece

• A Technical Note
• Preface
• The Reconstruction of Ancient History

  ---

• Chapter I: The Homeric Question
  • The Setting of the Stage
  • Why No Literary Relics from Five Centuries?
  • Troy in the Dark Ages
  • The Dark Age in Asia Minor
  • The Homeric Question
  • The Allies of Priam
  • Aeneas
  • Olympic Games in the Iliad

  ---

• Chapter II: Mute Witnesses
  • Troy and Gordion
  • The Lion Gate of Mycenae
  • Olympia
  • “The Scandal of Enkomi”
  • Tiryns
  • Mute Witnesses
  • A Votive Cretan Cave
  • Etruria
  • Sicily
  • Mycenae and Scythia

  ---

• Chapter III: Words Set In Clay
  • Pylos
  • Linear B Deciphered
  • The Greek Pantheon
  • Mycenean City Names in the Iliad
  • The Mycenean Dialect
  • Cadmus

  ---

• Chapter IV: a Gap Closed
  • Seismology and Chronology
  • Celestial Events in the Iliad
  • Changes in Land and Sea
  • A Gap Closed
  • Competing for a Greater Antiquity
  • Summing Up

  ---

• Supplement
  • Applying the Revised Chronology by Edwin Schorr
  • New Light on the Dark Age of Greece by Jan Sammer

  ---

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[Jan_Sobieski]

Ping

[Tax-chick]

Very interesting. It seems like there’s always more to dig up!

[DannyTN]

It doesn’t pay to have secrets.

As soon as people suspect something, they’ll dig and dig and dig.

[Red Badger]

Did they have to dig thru conCRETE?..............

[Red Badger]

New Secrets?

Wouldn’t these be OLD Secrets?................

[Verginius Rufus]

No report of any writing being found. If they find any it will probably be in Linear A, which has not been deciphered. Of course if it was, we wouldn’t be able to believe the information because (as St. Paul warned Titus), “Cretans are always liars.”

[SunkenCiv]

...and after they're unearthed, aren't they no longer secrets?