4,000-Year-Old Unique Minoan Site

It is the first monument of this type discovered in Crete. It is ring-shaped and very much different from the Minoan palaces which were arranged in a square or rectangular fashion. Based on the style of pottery fragments discovered during the excavation, archaeologists have established that the main period of use seems to have been between 2000 BC and 1700 BC, in the middle of the Minoan civilization often regarded as the oldest civilization in Europe.