# Knossos · Place > Knossos is a minoan palace site in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic, placed to about 100 m. In Cretan Hieroglyphic. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDPKDTVAWE/knossos Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[Places](https://mysteriesdept.com/places)Knossos Place · Minoan palace site · in 1 mystery # Knossos [Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[2 events][1 source][35.2980° N, 25.1631° E] Knossos is a minoan palace site in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic, placed to about 100 m. Two events on the site happened here, between 1900 and 2022: Evans uncovers the Hieroglyphic Deposit in the palace at Knossos, and later The seal KN S (4/4) 01 from the Knossos cult centre is published. Clay documents of CHIC H from the Hieroglyphic Deposit and other palace contexts; the cult-centre seal KN S (4/4) 01 and the Linear A ivory ring came from the Anetaki plot in the village. Written from the site's records. [Improve it](https://mysteriesdept.com/developers) Placed from Coordinates of the palace's central court from general reference; not checked against OpenStreetMap in this session. · Placed to about 100 m[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic#map) ## In the mysteries **Cretan Hieroglyphic** 2 events [The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic) [Is the Archanes script of the late Prepalatial seals the first stage of Cretan Hieroglyphic, or a separate script?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX0QKA1JC/is-the-archanes-script-of-the-late-prepalatial-seals-the)Open: 2 answers, none ahead [What did the clay documents and the seal inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX1A1NMX2/what-did-the-clay-documents-and-the-seal-inscriptions-record)Open: no answer ahead yet ## What happened here 2 1900[Evans uncovers the Hieroglyphic Deposit in the palace at Knossos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDS31PJWSH/evans-uncovers-the-hieroglyphic-deposit-in-the-palace-at) with [Arthur Evans](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDQZ6Z8KN2/arthur-evans) 2022[The seal KN S (4/4) 01 from the Knossos cult centre is published](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDSS0CDWFH/the-seal-kn-s-4-4-01-from-the-knossos-cult-centre-is) ## Nearby within 500 km [Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQF47G831/heraklion-archaeological-museum) museum 5 km NW [Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQHK18C5JRQ/heraklion-archaeological-museum) museum 5 km NW [Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1GG2S45NQ3/heraklion-archaeological-museum) museum 5 km NW [Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDSXFJZAQS/heraklion-archaeological-museum) museum 5 km NW [Archanes-Phourni cemetery](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQ4851DSS/archanes-phourni-cemetery) Minoan cemetery 6 km S [Arkalochori cave](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1GG2S455N7/arkalochori-cave) sacred cave 19 km SE ## People 1 [AE **Arthur Evans** Cretan Hieroglyphic ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/people/FIG0DEDQZ6Z8KN2/arthur-evans) ## Sources 1 [A Hieroglyphic seal from the cult centre of the city of Knossos (KN S (4/4) 01)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHJH0CKWC/a-hieroglyphic-seal-from-the-cult-centre-of-the-city-of) SRC ## Cite it ``` Mysteries Department. (2026). Knossos [Place PLC0DEDPKDTVAWE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPKDTVAWE ``` Key **PLC** 0DEDPKDTVAWE Record Place Kind Minoan palace site Position 35.2980° N, 25.1631° E Precision About 100 m Placed from Coordinates of the palace's central court from general reference; not checked against OpenStreetMap in this session. In [Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic) Version 1 Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) [ Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173527) **How this page is made.** The position and its precision are the record's, checked against OpenStreetMap and Wikidata; the map is drawn from Natural Earth. Everything else is the site's own record of what happened here. Six other places on the site lie within 500 km. The record Every record is open data. Take this one as JSON, with its links and its history. [JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/api/v1/records/PLC0DEDPKDTVAWE)