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Historical landmark

Anemospilia

Oros Giouchta, Iraklio 715 00

Ruined Minoan hilltop temple where a nineteen seventy-nine dig revealed evidence debated as human sacrifice.

This guide to Anemospilia near Heraklion reconstructs the moment archaeologist Yannis Sakellarakis opened a small Minoan temple on Mount Juktas in 1979 and found four people frozen exactly where they fell around 1700 BCE: a priestess, a man wearing an ornate ring, and a young man bound on a low stone platform beside a carved bronze blade. It lays out the case some researchers built from that scene, and the objections other archaeologists still raise about what the blade and platform really were. You're standing where that argument is still unresolved.

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