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Thus was the city planned and completed, and, like Halicarnassus, the people of Knidos, the demes and the clans and the families of the peninsula, moved into their new mercantile home. The age of intercontinental sea traffic had begun. The date – around 350 BC; Knidos was to enjoy just over one thousand years of sometimes palpable and sometimes precarious prosperity, an ebb and flow of security and distress as the centuries unfolded, until that fateful day in the 7th century AD when Yazid ibn Sufyan finally signed its death certificate on the marble stones of the chancel floor of the Byzantine Cathedral.

The investigation of those one thousand years was to lead to my own personal exploration. The expedition which I joined in 1969 as a surveyor, planning trenches, drawing sections, and laying out areas for the teams to dig, for me ushered in a whole new way of life.

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