Archaeological site

Malia Palace

📍 Lasithi, Crete🏛 archaeological site in Greece

Malia—the Mália of Greek—was not just one palace, but a long-running complex that rose, burned, and was rebuilt along Crete’s north coast. It sits about 35 kilometers east of Knossos and roughly 3 kilometers east and inland from the modern village of Malia, with occupation spanning from the middle 3rd millennium BC until about 1250 BC. During the Late Minoan I period (1700–1470 BC), it held the third largest Minoan palace, even though that palace was destroyed at the end of Late Minoan IB. The site’s rhythm of destruction and recovery is clear: the town had modest Early Minoan beginnings, was destroyed by fire at the end of EM IIIB, and later had a sizable mudbrick palace. Around 1700 BC, parts of the settlement were destroyed, the palace was reconstructed, and then the town was abandoned after the end of LM IB, about 1450 BC. …
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