Kourion is interesting partly because its destruction and abandonment due to earthquake is substantiated by the finding of human remains crushed by the falling masonry. That's actually unusual. People then as now tended to flee into the open.
Kourion is interesting partly because its destruction and abandonment due to earthquake is substantiated by the finding of human remains crushed by the falling masonry. That's actually unusual. People then as now tended to flee into the open.
The quake may have struck at night.
The walls are a nice mix of ashlars and uncut fillers. I wonder how high a level of society stonemasons occupied in antiquity.