Lo spazio funerario nella valle di Cnosso (Creta, Grecia): le tombe e le necropoli intorno al palazzo del II millennio a.C.

Knossos is the most important archaeological site in Crete, not only for its long history (from the VII millennium BC till today), but also for the tangible appreciation of the public. The Minoan palace is certainly the most impressive palatial structure of the island, in which the very well known myths of the Minotaur, Ariadne and Daedalus were located. Despite its fortune, Knossos is not very well known for tombs and necropoleis and, in general, for the burial customs that the Bronze age populations had adopted at the time of the palace. Through a multi-levels analysis - processing of old and new materials coming from a century of excavations, application of new spatial technologies able to identify visual relations between funerary sites, use of innovative concepts taken from modern grieving processes -, the project intends to cast new light on the believes systems of the Minoans and its interconnections with the material culture and the environments in which they were embedded.