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one; of thf thousand clay tablets with linear script found at knossos,. 
crete, by dr. a. j. evans 
0£ all the discoveries yet made on Cretan soil, that which, in the end, will doubtless 
prove to be of the greatest importance is the discovery of the various systems of "^^'^'"| 
which the Minoans successively devised and used. Photo from "The Sea Kings of Crete, 
by Rev. James Baikie. Adam and Charles Black, publishers (see pages 7 and 8). 
perate resistance of the palace guards, 
and then the horrors of the sack, and the 
long column of flushed victors winding 
down to their ships laden with booty, 
and driving with them crowds of captive 
women. Similar scenes must have been 
enacted at Phsestos and Hagia Triada, 
other forces of invaders or 
ne host sweeping round the 
either by 
by the Sc 
island. 
From this overwhelming disaster the 
Minoan Empire never recovered. The 
palace at Knossos was never reoccupied 
as a palace, at least on anything like the 
