Atlantis, the Printing Press and the Mystery of Minoan Civilization
Palace at Knossos "Now in the island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of Kings of great and marvelous power which held sway over all the island and many other islands." -Plato from Timaeus the year 360 BCE For two years the team of Italian archaeologists has been laboring in the hot sun on the island of Crete in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Though the waters surrounding the island are a deep and lovely blue the heat is oppressive, the work is tedious and the local inhabitants are suspicious at best and openly hostile at their worst. It is July 1908 and the team has been excavating palace sites across the island, trying to piece together information and artifacts about a little known, but apparently much advanced civilization--the Minoans. The Min...