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Throne Room, general view, from the northwest, depicting the entrance to the Throne Room (ground floor loggia) and the restored stairs to the second floor (the Throne Room dates to the fourth phase of the new palace or the Mycenaean phase); Was principal city of Crete throughout Antiquity; flourished ca. 2000-1400 BCE; was seat of legendary king Minos and labyrinth of Daedalus; best known for ruins of the great Minoan palace and Neolithic deposits. Source: Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Notes) [website]; http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ (accessed 2/14/2008)