4,000-Year-Old Minoan Houses, Built Centuries Before Palaces, Hid Clever Designs

4,000-Year-Old Minoan Houses, Built Centuries Before Palaces, Hid Clever Designs

Restored model of a Minoan house. Credit: Zde / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists say new research shows that 4,000-year-old Minoan houses used clever designs long before the island’s famous palaces appeared. The study argues that these early buildings were not as simple or random as once believed. Instead, they shared clear design rules that shaped how people in Bronze Age Crete lived and moved inside their homes. The findings cha…