Phylakopi

ancient city, Greece

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Phylakopi was a significant Bronze Age town located on the island of Melos in Greece. Excavations by a British expedition at the end of the 19th century revealed its importance. The settlement was defended by a massive wall at some point, and chamber tombs cut into the rock at Phylakopi date back to this period. While evidence of writing is scarce, pottery imported from Crete, known as Kamáres ware, has been found there, indicating trade connections.12

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…School, however, was that of Phylakopi, a site near Apollonia, the second port of Melos, on the promontory of Pláka. Phylakopi was a flourishing settlement at the time of the late Bronze Age eruption of neighboring Thera. Evidence discovered at Phylakopi in 1974 tended to reverse earlier assumptions that the…
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…School, however, was that of Phylakopi, a site near Apollonia, the second port of Melos, on the promontory of Pláka. Phylakopi was a flourishing settlement at the time of the late Bronze Age eruption of neighboring Thera. Evidence discovered at Phylakopi in 1974 tended to reverse earlier assumptions that the…
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