The Minoans were an industrious lot.
As well as olive oil, they produced wine, pottery, jewellery and a whole range of ‘household goods’, all of which helped fund the construction of the Palace of Knossos on Crete’s north coast.
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For us Britons, a tour of this extraordinary site (built almost 2,000 years before the Roman Empire) is enhanced by knowing that a Welsh archaeologist called Sir Arthur Evans discovered it.