Yerokambos is the archaeological site of an ancient
Minoan
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 1450B ...
cemetery in central
Crete
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.
Geography
The site is near the modern village of
Lendas, south of the
Asterousia
Asterousia ( el, Αστερούσια) is a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece
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mountains.
Archaeology
The tombs were built in
Early Minoan I and in use through
Middle Minoan IA.
References
* Swindale, Ia
"Yerokambos"Retrieved 11 Feb 2006
External links
* http://www.minoancrete.com/yerokambos.htm
Minoan sites in Crete
Ancient cemeteries in Greece
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