Welcome to the Palace of Knossos in Crete, Greece!!! 🇬🇷 💙 🏛️ 🏺 Known as the oldest city in Europe, this impressive complex of buildings served as a combination religious and administrative centre rather than a royal residence of the Minoan civilization! You are welcome to comment, share and join our groups about Crete at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1294583267926764/?ref=share https://linktr.ee/NikosKoniotakis #Crete #Kreta #Creta #Greece #Greek #Heraklion #Chania #Lassithi #Beach #Reth

On the island of Crete at the Palace of Knossos, the Minoan civilization built an advanced flushing toilet system around 1700 BC. They installed networks of terracotta pipes and cisterns that collected rainwater to power a lever system, flushing waste into neatly lined sewers. This ingenious design separated rainwater from wastewater long before similar systems appeared in Europe. Although their civilization later collapsed due to earthquakes and invasions, leaving these technological feats buri