Room 2 is the first of two rooms displaying finds from the Old-Palace period (2000-1700 b.c.), including the earliest examples of fine Kamaresware pottery with its polychrome decoration, found in the ruins at Knosses.
Room two includes stuff from the Knosses ruins.
On the mainland, an invasion of even greater significance followed in 1580, when Philip II of Spain proclaimed himself king of Portugal and marched his armies across the border.