Archaeological site

Priniatikos Pyrgos

📍 Lasithi, Crete🏛 archaeological site in Greece

Priniatikos Pyrgos sits on a coastal promontory near the Istron River in eastern Crete, with Agios Nikolaos as the nearest large town. The place begins in the Final Neolithic, around 3000 BC, and then remains active for millennia—so much so that occupation stretches through the Minoan Bronze Age, the Classical polis-town of Istron, and Roman, Byzantine, and Venetian periods, totaling up to about 4,000 years of use. Because the functions may have shifted over time, the settlement may have served as a harbour community, an industrial zone, and/or a cult site—possibly all at different moments. Since 2007, the site has been excavated by an international team under the auspices of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens. …
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