ocr: the arrangement of buildings around a central court can be seen in contempora- neous Near Eastern palaces such as the one at Mari, a Mesopotamian city on the Euphrates. Itis known that by 1700 B.C. the Minoans had trading links with Mari, and architectural ideas may have been brought back to Crete along with trade goods. Although the palaces shared a basic architectural plan, they varied considerably in grandeur. Knossos was the most splendid. Ifitis assumed the palaces were roughly rectangular, and if allowance is made for areas that have been lost, it is found that the buildings and central ...
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