From N.S. Gill,
Your Guide to Ancient / Classical History.
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Definition: The Minoans were a Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Crete whose early language, Linear A, we have not deciphered. Sir Arthur Evans was responsible for the excavations at Knossos and defining the Minoan period of Crete as a major civilization from c. 1900-1300 B.C. Besides Knossos, there were palace centers in Phaistos, and Kato Zakros that were destroyed, probably by an earthquake in about 1700. It was subsequently rebuilt. An enormous palace filled with rooms and narrow passageways is thought to have given rise to the legend of the labyrinth, built by Daedalus, with the Minotaur at its center that Theseus successfully traversed with the aid of a ball of string given him by the Minotaur's half-sister Ariadne.
We believe the government of the Minoans was a bureaucratic monarchy.

See: The Palace of Minos at Knossos
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