Most Cretan cities and palaces had gone…

Most Cretan cities and palaces had gone into decline in the thirteenth century BCE after about a century of partial recovery.

Knossos remains an administrative center until shortly after 1200 BCE; after 1100, habitation in the city ceases.

In the archaeology of the Minoan culture, LMIIC, from the 1190s to the 1170s BCE, is the Postpalatial Period; at Knossos, it is the Final Palace Period.

The last of the Minoan sites is the defensive mountain site of Karfi, a refuge site high in the Dikti Mountains, which will display vestiges of Minoan civilization almost into the Iron Age.