According to legend, Minos was born to Zeus and Europa, and was the daughter of agenor, king of Phoenicia. One day, Europa and his girl friends were walking by the sea and Zeus saw them. Zeus fell in love with Europa, so he became a cow, abducted Europa to Crete, got married, and gave birth to Minos and two other sons. Later, the Minos brothers became the king of Crete. When Minos was king, he got carried away and pretended to be a god because of the country's prosperity and growing power. This angered Zeus, gave Minos a clever punishment, and made Minos' wife Pashuai give birth to a tauren monster. Crete called this son of Minos MINO, which means "Minos' cow". Minos cattle eat human flesh. At that time, architect and artist Daedalus was jealous that his students' skills surpassed his own. After killing the students, he fled from Athens to Crete and took refuge in King Minos. Minos received him warmly. Therefore, Daedalus specially built a maze for the terrible Minos cattle. It is said that the central room of this huge building is Minotaur's residence, and there are many winding roads connecting it. People who don't know the way to enter this palace are either eaten by Minos cows or starved to death in the back channels. Another myth says that theseus, the prince of Athens, broke into a maze and killed a cow in Minos. Because Minos' daughter Ariadne fell in love with theseus, she followed Daedalus's advice and gave theseus a ball of thread and a sword. It was with this thread and a sword that theseus killed Minos, rescued the virgin and escaped from the maze. Whether these myths and legends are true or not has always attracted people's attention. Si Nuo's name was also mentioned in the works of ancient Greek historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides, but it was the British scholar Altug who really solved the mystery? Evans (1851~1941year). From March 65438 to March 0900, Evans started an archaeological excavation in Knossos, Crete, and soon he found a large-scale palace relic. This palace is located in a scenic valley at the foot of Tass Mountain in You Ke, four kilometers from the north bank of central Crete, with a total area of 16000 square meters. The center is a rectangular courtyard, surrounded by buildings such as the palace, the queen's bedroom and the religious double axe palace. There are long corridors, hallways, multiple roads, stairs, etc. They are connected in zigzag. The venue in the northwest corner outside the palace may be a bullfighting theater. In this way, a picture of the South China Sea maze in Greek legend is vividly presented to people.
Faced with the ruins of the "maze", people are puzzled why this palace was destroyed and rebuilt several times. Historians have different views on why this is. Some people think that there is no trace of fire in the ruins, and conclude that the city palace was destroyed by the earthquake; Other researchers believe that the palace was destroyed before it was destroyed. About 1400 BC, the palace of Knossos was destroyed for the last time and will not be rebuilt. Historians have different explanations for this. Some people think that this may be caused by the uprising of Crete against the Greek rulers. Some scholars believe that this may be the result of the invasion of Crete by the Akayan people (a branch of the Greeks) on the Greek peninsula. A new linear character file, linear character B, was found in Knossos Palace (the linear character created by Crete before was called linear character A, but it has not been successfully interpreted). It was interpreted in the early 1950 s and proved to be written in Greek, which provided strong evidence for those who advocated the Akayan invasion theory.
If the ruins of the "maze" have been excavated, it is hard to say where the Crete who created the "maze" came from and what race they belonged to, which is still a historical mystery. To sum up, there are five different opinions: the first opinion is that Crete is a Phoenician or an Arab; The second opinion is that they are from Africa; The third opinion is that Crete should be classified as "Indo-European race"; The fourth opinion is that Cretes are Greeks; The fifth view is that they are closely related to the Caribbean and Brazilians, so they are closely related to Basques, Iberians, Ligurians, Etruscans and other ethnic groups, including Caucasians.
It seems that historians all over the world will continue to study when these mysteries about the "maze" will be solved, especially the successful interpretation of the linear character A.