Malia
Bronze Age Minoan palace ruins beside a royal graveyard once looted for gold, now yielding filigree jewelry and a mysterious ritual stone.
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This guide to the Malia site near Heraklion opens with villagers who spent generations looting a graveyard mound they called Chrysolakkos, the pit of gold, convinced by the nineteen twenties that nothing remained to find. It follows the 1930 discovery that proved them wrong in a sealed corner archaeologists almost overlooked, and walks from that royal graveyard to the ruined palace, where a stone slab pocked with thirty-four hollows still puzzles researchers today.
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