Posted on 10/08/2012 7:06:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the past few years, the remains of an impressive and luxurious building from 3,500 years ago has seen the light. The building has two or three floors and some 80 rooms including workshops and storage rooms over a surface of 1,360 square metres and it is in excellent state. Sapouna-Sakellaraki told To Vima weekly that it is the first Minoan mountain settlement built in the same period as the Palace of Knossos. The archaeologist also said this is the largest summer residence found so far from the Minoan era.
The structure of the building shows that it was not a seasonal house for shepherds but a luxury residence for local leaders. The building was a great administrative centre and was built with large, elongated stones while walls had been painted in different colours as shown by the building's remains. Experts believe the palace was destroyed by a violent earthquake.
Research so far has shown that three time periods emerge from the remains of the Palace of Zominthos -- its first construction in 1900 BC, the second around 1600 BC at the height of its prosperity, when it was presumably destroyed by an earthquake and around 1400 BC when another building was built nearby.
Archaeological findings in Zominthos are several including signets with scorpions or birds and ornamental objects in copper and ivory. Two copper statues were also found, "among the most beautiful from the most prosperous Minoan period", said the archaeologist, who believes these prove the area was also a place of worship. Excavations have in fact unearthed among other things a metallic cylinder with snakes which could have been the sceptre of a priest and a copper cup.
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Palace of Zominthos (Crete) from NW (Outer wall of the ceramic workshop)
Your postings are always interesting.. thanks!
Put’s some perpective on things on this planet. I have a question I’ll mail you..
You know, if you add on an apartment, you could rent the apartment and use the rent to pay the mortgage. Or put on a roof.
Looks like my house, only nicer.
Thanks, the maps and photos add a lot, putting the article into perspective. Your posts are greatly appreciated by a lot of us here on FR.
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Thanks! I messed up a little, I was in a rush, and probably would have included a map showing Crete itself.
Thanks.
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