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The Archaeological Museum of Rethymno is a museum in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. The building that houses the museum is the church of San Francesco, built by the Barozzi family around 1530. Gallery
The site lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno, on a narrow northern spur of Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete. The Museum of Ancient Eleutherna was inaugurated on 19 June 2016 [3] and is the fourth museum in Greece exclusively focusing on a single archaeological site, after the museums of Olympia, Delphi and Vergina.
Surveys and systematic excavations have revealed the city's settlement patterns, sanctuaries and necropoleis in Orthi Petra, [1] even stone quarries in the surroundings of the Prines hill. The discovery of the remains of four females in Orthi Petra was declared one of top 10 discoveries of 2009 by the Archaeological Institute of America. [2]
The sculpture was discovered during the time when talks were taking place by the municipality of Rethymno about acquiring the rampart of the town's fortress and converting it into an archaeological museum, when a resident informed the local archaeological ephorate of the existence of an ancient statue buried deep somewhere in a local man's estate. [3]
Armeni has been under excavation since 1969 by Dr. Yiannis Tzedakis. Over 200 chamber tombs and one tholos tomb have been found. All date to the Late Minoan era. The chambers are approached by entrance passages, or dromos, which start at ground level and descend to the entrance of the tomb. The tombs are not identical, with some having ramps ...
In 1984, Themelis became professor of classical archaeology at the University of Crete, based at Rethymno. As professor, he led the university's excavations of sector I at Eleutherna in Crete. From 1987 onwards, [2] he undertook extensive excavations and restoration works at ancient Messene.
It is protected by an Ottoman-era ravelin, which now serves as the Archaeological Museum of Rethymno. [12] Two smaller gates are located in the west and north sides of the fortress. A number of buildings are located within the Fortezza, including: the Mosque of Sultan Ibrahim, which was formerly the Cathedral of St Nicolas. [13]
The site in its setting. Monastiraki (Greek: Μοναστηράκι) is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan town on the island of Crete.The site is on the plain of Amari, west of the Ida massif, 38 kilometres (24 miles) from Rethymnon.