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Minoan Tombs

PLATANOS (Village) GORTYNA
  In Platanos, two large tombs containing ivory seals and gold jewellery dating from 3500 B.C. have been discovered. They are among the largest and most important tombs on Crete because of their age. They are free-standing and were probably roofed. The diameter of the largest of the tombs was 13 metres and its walls were 3 metres thick. They were used for a long period of time.

This text is cited Dec 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.

Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Site.jdp?ID=1359 (3 img.)

Digiserve web page
• http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/platanos... (4 img.)

Early Minoan settlement of Trypiti

TRYPITA (Settlement) GORTYNA

Digiserve web page
• http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/tripiti.... (8 img.)