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Fourni
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Anna
April 20, 2016
Northwest of Archanes, is the small hill Fourni. Fourni is the location where a Minoan cemetery was discovered, one of the most important areas, not only of Arhanes, and the whole of Crete. With the excavations of recent years revealed so far 26 buildings, most grave, among which five vaulted tombs, and others were religious and secular use. The very long period of use of the cemetery for more than fifteen hundred years (2800-1200 BC), the number and variety in a single room, burial buildings of all architectural types, within which were hundreds of burials, the richness and variety of offerings, making the fusing. Aptly then, it was named "the most important cemetery of Crete" and "one of the greatest of Cretomycenaean world." The Minoan cemetery established in the southern part of the hill, at the top and on the east side, and even survives a wide path leading from Kato Archanes Fourni. Access to Fourni is today from this ancient path. West of the cemetery hilltop, found traces of the cemetery quarry. The quarry Fourni is the only quarry that served a cemetery.
Northwest of Archanes, is the small hill Fourni. Fourni is the location where a Minoan cemetery was discovered, one of the most important areas, not only of Arhanes, and the whole of Crete. With the excavations of recent years revealed so far 26 buildings, most grave, among which five vaulted tombs,…