Dear Visitor! Here you can download for FREE some books about Crete.

Evans. A. ” The Palace of King Minos”.

This 6 volume book was written by English Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. He discovered and unearthed The Minoan Civilization on Crete. This book is a result of his multiage excavations in Knossos.

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Volume 1

Volume 2 part 1

Volume 2 part 2

Volume 3

Volume 4 part 1

Volume 4 part 2

Evans. A. ” Cretan Pictographs and Pre Phoenician script”.  1895

Sir Evans published this book before to start his excavations on Crete, which made him famous. He tried to compare Cretan pictographs and Phoenician alphabet.

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Evans. A. “The Minoan and Mycenaean element in Hellenic life”. 1913

Another book of Sir Evans about Minoans. Here he tries to find traces of Minoans and Mycenaeans in Greek Culture.

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Chadwick, Baumbach ” The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”. 1963

This is Vocabulary of Mycenaean language, which was spoken since 15 cent BCE on Crete. The Mycenaean language was a dialect of Ancient Greek Language and had different Grammar from modern Greek language.

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Pendlebury. J. “The Archaeology of Crete”. 1939

Mr. Pendlbury was an English Archaeologist – Evans’ student. He walked around Crete, searching for local antiquities and described what he saw.

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Robert Pashley. Travels in Crete. 1837

Travel notices about travels in Crete of the British traveler and description of Ottoman Crete in the beginning of 19 cent.

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