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The Enos Wall Mansion, at 411 East South Temple, in Salt Lake City, Utah, was built in 1905. It was designed by Richard K.A. Kletting. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the South Temple Historic District. It serves as the Thomas S. Monson Center of the University of Utah. [2] [3]
Amnisos, also Amnissos and Amnisus (Greek: แผμνισฯς or แผμνισσฯς; Linear B: ๐๐๐๐ฐ A-mi-ni-so), [1] is the current but unattested name given to a Bronze Age settlement on the north shore of Crete that was used as a port to the palace city of Knossos.
Knossos and the Herakleion Museum: Brief Illustrated Archaeological Guide. Translated by Doumas, Alexandra. Athens: Hannibal Publishing House. Driessen, Jan (1990). An early destruction in the Mycenaean palace at Knossos: a new interpretation of the excavation field-notes of the south-east area of the west wing. Acta archaeologica Lovaniensia ...
For centuries, a warm bath has remained one of life’s great luxuries. From the earliest examples of bathing facilities at the Palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete to modern ...
During the Final Palace Period (LM II-IIIA, c. 1470-1330 BC), Knossos was rebuilt while the other palaces were left in ruins. In this era, Knossos was ruled by a Mycenaean Greek elite, who adopted a mixture of local Minoan cultural traditions and ones from the mainland. [48]
He revisited Knossos in 1926 and then directed the excavations of a mediaeval church at Glastonbury. He started to travel to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt in 1932, to study ancient architectural remains. The results of studies are presented in his book Hellenistic Architecture: An Introductory Study, published in 1936. He died in a ...
The ruins at Knossos were discovered in either 1877 or 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos, a Cretan merchant and antiquarian.There are basically two accounts of the tale, one deriving from a letter written by Heinrich Schliemann in 1889, to the effect that in 1877 the "Spanish Consul," Minos K., excavated "in five places."
The Utah Governor's Mansion (also known as the Kearns Mansion) is the official residence of the governor of Utah and family. It is located at 603 East South Temple Street (within the South Temple Historic District ) in Salt Lake City , Utah , United States.