{"id":483,"date":"2015-04-28T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/?page_id=483"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:30:57","slug":"zakros","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/greece\/crete\/zakros\/","title":{"rendered":"Zakros"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"483\" class=\"elementor elementor-483 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-z0g43y8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"z0g43y8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3sgymwg\" data-id=\"3sgymwg\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-gq4yjyx elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"gq4yjyx\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Zakros (Kato Zakros), on Crete&#8217;s remote eastern coast, was the fourth of the great Minoan palaces, alongside Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia. Its sheltered harbor made it an important hub for trade with Egypt, the Near East, and Cyprus, evidenced by imported raw materials such as ivory, bronze, and elephant tusks found on site. Unlike Knossos, Zakros was never looted or reoccupied after its destruction (likely by the same volcanic and seismic events that devastated Minoan Crete around 1450 BC), so excavators, led by Greek archaeologist Nikolaos Platon starting in 1961, found many of its treasures still in place, including exquisite stone vessels, bronze tools, and a rock-crystal rhyton considered one of the finest examples of Minoan carving. [Editor&#8217;s note: no old-site source material was found for this page. This paragraph was drafted as a placeholder using general reference sources and should be reviewed\/expanded by Dr. Siegel.]<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-gzcfhxt elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"gzcfhxt\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zakros (Kato Zakros), on Crete&#8217;s remote eastern coast, was the fourth of the great Minoan palaces, alongside Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia. Its sheltered harbor made it an important hub for trade with Egypt, the Near East, and Cyprus, evidenced by imported raw materials such as ivory, bronze, and elephant tusks found on site. Unlike Knossos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":477,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483\/revisions\/1303"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}