They were used all over again in the late Bronze Age (1200-800 BC) as cremation cemeteries and cremation pyres.

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Evans wanted fervently to believe that the Minoans' wealth in the late Bronze Age was based on a powerful seafaring empire that extended to mainland Greece.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot

The site, where Queen Mary's Hospital was located, is less than 100m (328ft) away from a hilltop where late Bronze Age remains were discovered in the early 20th Century.

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Later, Evans also tried to destroy the career of Alan Wace, a young Cambridge scholar who argued that warlike Mycenaeans from mainland Greece had eclipsed the Minoans late in the Bronze Age, a view that today has become widely accepted.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot