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Posted on 06/17/2024 10:06:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Excavations that are underway at the top of Papoura Hill, at an altitude of 494m. NW of the town of Kastellio and the airport under construction, yielded a monumental architectural ensemble, in a circular shape, unique for the...
This monumental construction consists of 8 consecutive stone-built rings - through a thickness of 1.40m., And a height estimated. The rings form a circular building in the center ( zone A ) diameter 15m. with differential construction, the interior of which ( diems. Zone A is surrounded by a second main zone ( zone B, with a width of 6.9 ), in which radial walls intersect vertically. The progress of the excavation reveals an almost labyrinthine structure, as the spaces communicate with each other with narrow openings. In the SW and NW side, two possible main entrances to the main zones were revealed.
The main period of use seems to have been between ( 2000-1700 BC ), ie it was probably founded shortly before or at the beginning of the period, while the presence of neo-palace pottery in the layer of destruction, states that the use of the monument continued during the youth period...
The floor plan of the monument and the structure of the zones and spaces as it has been revealed so far, but the whole construction has not been accurate as a shape is not unknown to us by architectural ensembles of the early Bronze Age in the Near East. It may be paralleled with the elliptical MM building of Hamazio, as well as with the so-called circular proto-Hellenic cyclopean building Tirt. Construction similarities, however, are also found with the so-called vaulted tombs of the pre-palace and paleo-palace period, while the whole construction refers to proto-Hellenic, but also later tombs of mainly Greece or later.
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The monumental architectural ensemble that was revealed in CastelliMinistry of Culture (?)
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-year-cretan-hilltop-mystifies-greek.html
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/minoan-monument-crete-0020920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmwlLmJ3_k
And that is a good thing.
That is amazing.
It would be pretty nice to live in a place with these kinds of construction problems. :^)
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