The archaeological site is on a hill, close to the city of Sitia.

It was founded in the early Minoan period (3000BC) and was inhabited continuously until 1450BC. The palatial building formed a core around which the settlement developed. Archaeologists found a cyclopean wall with towers at the bottom of the hill and large two-floored houses with workshops and storage rooms built in terraces. A workshop area for the processing and dyeing of wool and a storage room were discovered in one of the houses. They were probably used for the storage of aromatic oils, as indicated on a linear A tablet.

The palatial building occupied an area of three acres on the top of the hill. It included a multiple doorway (polythyron, typical of Minoan architecture), corridors, a central courtyard, worship areas with offering tables and linear A tablets, storage, and workshop areas.

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