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The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes - The Minoans
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The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes - The Minoans

Bettany Hughes travels to Crete to trace how the myth of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth led to one of archaeology's biggest finds. Just over a century ago the English archaeologist Arthur Evans went looking for the roots of that story and instead unearthed a Bronze Age civilization no one knew had existed, one he named the Minoans. Evans called them the first civilization of the Western world, and Hughes walks the site and the finds that made him say so: the palace ruins, the frescoes, the scale of a culture rich enough to astonish Europe when it surfaced. She also weighs how that verdict holds up now, since the past decade of digs has added detail Evans never had and complicated his romantic picture of a peaceful, matriarchal Crete. The film sits at the point where a Greek legend and an actual excavation meet, asking how much of what Evans found was fact and how much was the story he wanted to tell.

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