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The world’s most glorious monument to fakery, outshining even Las Vegas and the Disney archipelago, is Knossos, the Greek site containing the legendary Palace of Minos. There are real ruins at this place–remnants of a time, more than 3,000 years ago, when Crete was a center of art, trade, and technology. But when Arthur Evans started his excavations there in 1899, things got complicated.

Evans restored much of the architecture with concrete, making irreversible changes that owed as much to his creative speculations as they did to the archeological evidence. He had painters decorate the walls, extrapolating whole frescoes from small fragments. Their art was beautiful, lively, and as authentic as a stuffed minotaur….

— Jesse Walker, Knossos Presents Dueling Ideas of Greek History
Reason (August/September 2025)