From the palace of the sea kings in Minos, sir Arthur Evans was shown to have had a huge capacity for visualizations. The architects would say he almost always got it right. Just by looking at a piece of broken stone he could see the whole original structure looked. He has been to Egyptian pharaoh palaces and now palace of the sea kings and the effect overwhelmed him. Reason being Egyptian palaces were made of sun dried bricks which the foundation was all that was left. Only the temples and tombs were built for eternity. At Knossos, he felt within the time walking the walls enlivened with echoes. -cotterell info