Just under a kilometre from the Palace of Minos at Knossos stands the Fortetsa Aqueduct, a stone bridge of the Byzantine era in the Heraklion region. Built to carry water, it speaks to the practical engineering of its age, when such structures sustained daily life across the Cretan landscape. Excavations conducted between 1995 and 2019 documented the site and its links to nearby Minoan and later settlements, revealing layers of habitation that span the late Minoan period to modern times. The surrounding ground at Gypsades holds traces of Knossos's long story, from the palace's Bronze Age prime to the centuries that followed.
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