Oh, dear! I meant Rome! I’ll change it right now! Thank you!

Hi Nancie! Yes, I think if you dug up a site you were pretty much allowed to do what you wanted. And it’s easy to judge it with 20/20 hindsight.

Thanks, Jackie! Yes, if you want “better ruins” there are lots of other choices. I’d recommend many of the temples and other sites along the Nile, for example, or in other parts of Greece or in Italy. Pompeii, for example, is amazing.

I’ve never been to Turkey, but I know what you mean. I did glean some interesting “facts” from the boards posted here and there. I guess I needed more complete prep work to understand what I was seeing, and to make a judgement as to whether the reconstructed parts were accurate or not.

Yep, at least two sides. And also two interpretations of the same story: the freedom fighter/terrorist difference, for example. You could draw incorrect conclusions from the given evidence, and you could also shape those conclusions based on what you hope is the truth.

True. But one of the goals of Theory of Knowledge is to teach kids to question the ‘facts’ they’re given and think about how we arrive at conclusions. In a place like Knossos we tend to defer to the experts–in this case, archeologists–which is fine. But it’s good to stay aware that those experts are just humans trying to draw conclusions from incomplete evidence. By the way, only some parts of the ruins at Knossos are replicas. A lot of it just looked like low walls that had been stabilized a bit.