In 1900, when the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans started excavating the site of Knossos, he didn’t expect the operation to go on for 35 years. But it was far larger than the team had envisioned and the men soon discovered two ancient scripts, Linear A and Linear B, which helped them to decipher pictographs. The way the palace was constructed led to a new understanding of the Minoan people, a Bronze Age civilization that appeared to be sophisticated in the arts, writing, and politics. The first U.K. exhibition to focus on Knossos presents 100 objects that have never left Greece before, as well as items from Evans’s archives. The show also looks into the fabled labyrinth, lair of the infamous Minotaur. —Elena Clavarino