ocr: entity with its own ruler and administrative archives. At least two factors, however, suggest a special connection between Zakros and Knossos. First, a large group of clay-seal impressions found in one of the houses at Zakros has connections with impressions found in Knossos. Second, both the palace and the town have yielded an unusual quantity of fine pottery that almost certainly came from the workshops of Knossos. Perhaps Zakros was the eastern trading port for Knossos: the first landfall for ships sailing from the southeastern Mediterranean. If Zakros also served as the first landfall for ...
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