Delos or Dilos, is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago. Though only 3.43 km2 in area, it is one of the most important mythological, historical, and archa
General view of Delos
The island of Delos, Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann, 1847
The Cyclades are Greek islands located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. The archipelago contains some 2,200 islands, islets and rocks; just 33 islands are inhabited. For the ancients, they form
Antiparos
A block of obsidian.
Reconstruction of a cist tomb.
This procession of ships on a fresco from Akrotiri (prehistoric city) also shows a Cycladic settlement of the 2nd millennium BC.