Location information

Minoan Cemetery

  At Stylos a Minoan cemetery was found by archaeologists, but so far very few excavations have been done. The excavated graves are fenced off but can be seen easily. A much larger Minoan site may exist on the hill.

• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Postpalatial_Minoan_Ce... (4 img.)
Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Site.jdp?ID=165 (2 img.)

Digiserve web page
• http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/stylos.h... (5 img.)

Tholos tomb

Large tholos tomb with a long, built dromos. The chamber is built in the ecphoric system. It is dated to the Late Minoan III period.
The tomb was excavated in 1961 by the archaeologists K. Davaras and N. Platon; it had been looted, possibly in antiquity.

This text is cited Feb 2003 from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture URL below, which also contains image.

Hellenic Ministry of Culture WebPage
• http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21125n/e211yn01.htm... (1 img.)

  At Stylos there is an intact, round Minoan tholos tomb inside the right gate. The tomb is in the middle of an olive grove. It dates from the Late Minoan Period and has been built on a hill. A downward-sloping path built with stones leads to the entrance of the tomb, which is underground. This is a vaulted tomb that has been built with stones placed one above the other so that successive layers are progressively nearer the centre of the tomb until they eventually meet.

This extract is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.

Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Site.jdp?ID=166 (4 img.)