In March 1900 the British archaeologist Arthur Evans began excavating a mound at Knossos on Crete, where Minos Kalokairinos had made trial digs in 1878. Within weeks he uncovered the walls of a vast Bronze Age palace with painted frescoes, storerooms, light wells and plumbing, built from about 1900 BC. Evans named the culture Minoan after the legendary King Minos, and found tablets in the undeciphered scripts Linear A and Linear B. He restored parts of the palace in concrete in a controversial manner. The finds revealed a European civilisation older than Greece.
Before and after
- 9 January 1900Founding of SS Lazio
- from 23 January 1900 to 24 January 1900Battle of Spion Kop
- 22 February 1900Birth of Luis Buñuel
- 27 February 1900Founding of FC Bayern Munich
- March 1900Arthur Evans begins digging at Knossos
- 18 March 1900Founding of AFC Ajax
- 14 April 1900Founding of Union Cycliste Internationale
- 25 April 1900Birth of Wolfgang Pauli
- 29 June 1900Birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The era
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