Voyage to Crete: Falasarna
by Eti Bonn-Muller
July 27, 2009
Yesterday I spent the day in Chania before boarding the 8:30 a.m. bus to Falasarna, one of the westernmost points on Crete. Here, a team under the direction of veteran archaeologist Elpida Hadjidakis has unearthed a “closed†Hellenistic harbor in an unlikely place—dry land.
I caught up with Hadjidakis and the team on the first day of the dig season. The feisty, hands-on excavator, a self-proclaimed “harbor girl†who grew up in Chania and Athens, spoke with me as she scrutinized every centimeter of soil unearthed that windy day.
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Ships were once moored to the harbor through these loops, which still bear the impressions of the sailors’ ropes.
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