AIA Fieldwork Photo Contest 2020

Entry 10441

Submitted by Gavin McGuire

Sissi, Crete

Neapoli, Lasithi, Greece

Category: Excavation

Removing The Paraphernalia Of Death Excavating at Sissi, Crete, a rare Late Minoan cist grave, inside an earlier mortuary building, containing a woman’s skeleton, as well as a bronze mirror with ivory handle, garment pins and a necklace strung with gold shaped like olive pits.

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