The Minoans: A beginner's guide
The excavators
Sir Arthur Evans
www.dilos.com/location/13407
Biography of the second, and most important, excavator of Knossos.
Sir Arthur Evans and the Excavation of the Palace at Knossos
www.athenapub.com/11evans.htm
Article from the Athena Review that gives an account of
Evans' life plus an assessment of his achievements.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-08-14.html
Long review, in the online Bryn Mawr Classical Review, of
the book Born to Rebel, a biography of Boyd Hawes written by
her daughter Mary Allsebrook, which tells the story of the pioneer archaeologist
on Crete.
Heinrich Schliemann
www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/
pqrst/schliemann_heinrich.html
Basic account of the archaeologist whose work – and interest
in Knossos – eventually led to others making discoveries there.
