Prassa (also Prassas) 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 ...

settlement on

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, ...

Archaeology

Two

Middle 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 ...

houses were uncovered at Prassa, which were in use until Late Minoan I.

References

* Swindale, Ian http://www.minoancrete.com/prassa.htm Retrieved 4 February 2006

External links

* http://www.minoancrete.com/prassa.htm Minoan sites in Crete Populated places in ancient Greece Former populated places in Greece {{Crete-geo-stub