Archaeological Site of Hagia Triada
Minoan hilltop villa and cemetery yielding painted sarcophagi, Linear A tablets, and vivid relief carvings.
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This guide to the Archaeological Site of Hagia Triada near Heraklion opens with a carved joke on a 3,500-year-old vessel found here: two men, one fallen, one laughing, on the so-called Harvester Vase. It follows the ruins of a Minoan hilltop villa tied to the palace at Phaistos, the 1902 excavations led by Federico Halbherr, and the undeciphered Linear A tablets and painted sarcophagus his team uncovered nearby. Start at the storerooms before working your way up the hillside toward the villa's painted chambers.
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