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Zatrikion: Knossos Board Game Shows Minoans Enjoyed Leisure and Play
The people of the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete in the Aegean Sea enjoyed a sophisticated society that included fine art, agriculture, writing systems, royal palaces, and an apparent board game that indicates a life of leisure and recreation for at least some of the residents.
The Cretan businessman and antiquarian Minos Kalokairinos began excavating the Bronze Age ruins in the 1870s, about 3,100 years after Minoan society first flourished. He studied the palace at Knossos in 1878. Twenty-one years later, Arthur Evans, a British archaeologist, took over the excavations and did a richly detailed study of Minoan society. It was Evans who coined the term “Minoan,” after King Minos of Greek myth.
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