Tomb of the Priestesses

With Nicholas Stampolidis: Explore the monumental funerary building that housed the remains of a wealthy and powerful high priestess and her three protégés, all from the same family.

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[37Dionysos]

Thank you for this posting. It's interesting to see that in central Crete even many hundreds of years after the Minoans, there was still so much regard, respect, rank and honor for women---such as the woman buried here at "65 years old or so" and the much younger one beside her. They were laid to rest covered in gold, with rare goods like bronze Phoenician-style lamps....Imagine the knowledge and history remembered in the mind of this elder woman.

[BitZiBitZiDi]

Proud member of the excavation team for years, one of the lucky ones to dig inside the building M shown above. Once in a life time experience! Prof. Stampolides and Dr. Kotsonas, thank you.And many thanks to Archaeology magazine and Eti, hope you felt at home.