Trapeza, Crete is a
Neolithic and
Bronze Age sacred cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...
on the island of
Crete in
Greece. Some of the Bronze Age pottery finds at Trapeza are similar to specimens recovered at
Knossos and
Vasiliki.
[C. Michael Hogan]
''Knossos fieldnotes'', Modern Antiquarian (2007)
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It is described as a "burial cave", and sometimes called the "table of Minos
In Greek mythology, Minos (; grc-gre, Μίνως, ) was a King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten ...
" (trapeza meaning table in Greek).
See also
*Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on the island of Crete and other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings were from 3500BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000BC, and then declining from 1450BC ...
References
Minoan sites in Crete
Neolithic settlements in Crete
Ancient caves of Greece
Sacred caves
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