Excerpt from The Palace of Minos, Vol. 4: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos; Part 1, Emergence of Outer Western Enceinte, With New Illustrations, Artistic and Religious, of the Middle Minoan Phase The broad treatment necessary for the interpretation of the varied evidence has indeed entailed a survey extending far beyond the Aegean and even the Libyan Sea, and constant reference has been found necessary to contemporary and still earlier civilizations from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates. Such conditions, indeed, transcend the limits of individual capacity, and in the small measure in which it may have been possible to fulfil them the notes appended to these ivolumes record my repeated acknowledgements to the work of fellow explorers in this wide area. This broad survey and the explanatory materials thus included may give the successive Volumes of this Work - though always centring round the Great Palace - some title to be regarded as an Encyclopaedia of Minoan cultural features, of its Art, and of its Religion. The Index Volume to the whole work, kindly undertaken by my sister, Dr. Joan Evans, and already well advanced, will greatly help to make it generally serviceable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.