Malia Palace Archaeological Site
Bronze Age palace ruins centered on a mysterious stone with thirty three ritual offering cups, rebuilt twice after earthquakes.
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This guide to the Malia Palace Archaeological Site follows a worn stone disc ringed with thirty-three shallow cups, found beside the old theatre steps, and the mystery of what ancient hands once poured into them. It traces the myth of Sarpedon, brother of Minos, said to have founded a palace here after being driven out by his own kin, and the site's real history of repeated ruin and rebuilding from around 1800 BC onward. Listen for the grain silos and bronze workshops nearby.
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