ocr: near the coast. Knossos, which lies five kilometers inland from the northern coast, commands the fertile valleys of northern central Crete. In the south, Phaistos dominates the Mesara, Crete's only large plain. The palace at Phaistos was also discovered in 1900 and was excavated by workers from the Italian School of Archaeology under the direction of Luigi Pernier. Mallia, east of Knossos on the northern coast, may have included the Lasithi Mountains in its territory. The Greek archaeologist Joseph Hatzidhakis began digging at Mallia in 1915;in the 1920sa team from the French School of Archaeo ...
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