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Material from the Sir Arthur Evans Archive

The port of Herakleion, 1900

Arthur Evans, Theodore Fyfe, and Duncan Mackenzie at Knossos, 1900

Reconstruction drawing of the ‘Grandstand and Temple’ miniature fresco, Emile Gilliéron the younger, around 1925

Polychrome pot from a tomb at Isopata, near Knossos

The travel diary of Arthur Evans during his visit to Crete in 1896

Romantic reconstruction drawing of the ‘Queen’s Megaron’ by Emile Gilliéron the younger, 1922-1926

Excavating tombs at Mavro Spelio, near Knossos, 1926

Cartoon of Arthur Evans by Piet de Jong, 1924

Proposed restoration of the ‘Royal Staircase’ at Knossos by Christian Doll, 1905

A page from Arthur Evans’s notebook from the first season of excavations at Knossos, 1900

Reconstruction drawing of the South Stepped Portico by Francis Newton, 1922-1924