Knossos's enduring fascination derives as much from Evans's bold restoration of the palace, the centre of Europe's first urban civilisation, as from the raunchy legend of the Minotaur, the monstrous offspring of Queen Pasiphae's affair with a bull, who was shut up at Knossos in a labyrinth built by Daedalus, an early technological whizz.

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