Yannis Galanakis

BEFORE THE 1936 EXHIBITION: TENSIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN THE EXPORT OF ANTIQUITIES ON THE EVE OF THE KNOSSOS EXCAVATIONS

This paper revisits a seemingly straightforward question: why were the early excavations at Knossos not conducted under the auspices of the British School at Athens? It argues that a key factor lay in the exportation of antiquities, a practice with which the School was reluctant...