Around 1400 BCE
Around 1200 BCE, a fortified settlement was established on Cape Maa–Palaeokastro. We connected this stop with Mycenaean settlement in Cyprus and remembered above all the museum’s unusual architecture.
The museum is partly underground. It has a circular roof and an enormous door resembling a section of a cylinder. Inside we saw maps of settlement patterns, a bronze oxhide ingot bearing Cypro-Minoan signs, a clay tablet, jewellery and a figurine of a horned warrior.
On the cape itself, two powerful defensive lines of cyclopean masonry survive: one protected the settlement from the landward side and the other from the sea. We therefore look first for the walls and consider where danger was expected to come from, and then compare metal, writing and warrior imagery in the museum.
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