Lemnos Island, Lemnos Island, North Aegean Islands Hephaistia was an ancient city dedicated to the god Hephaestus.
It was the second most important town of the island after Myrina.
The findings in the area include houses, cemetery, sprawling sanctuary dedicated to the great... View More
Archaeological Site of Poliochni
Lemnos Island, Lemnos Island, North Aegean Islands Poliochni is the oldest city in Europe, and is located on the east coast of Lemnos island, opposite the city of Troy.
Poliochni started as a small Neolithic village during the 4th millennium BC and it developed in a thriving... View More
Archaeological Site of Poliochni
Prehistoric Settlement of Myrina
Lemnos Island, Lemnos Island, North Aegean Islands View More
Prehistoric Settlement of Myrina
Sanctuary of Cabeiri
Lemnos Island, Lemnos Island, North Aegean Islands Cabeiri were deities of flowering and fertility, divine craftsmen, sons of Hephaestus.
The geographer Strabo reported that in Lemnos, the mother (there was no father) of the Cabeiri was Kabeiro herself, a daughter of Proteus... View More