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One of the
mysteries on Kos: Aspri Petra.
It is mentioned on several maps and even with pictures in a tourist
guide (see below), but is you ask the local people, only few have ever
heard about it and nobody knows exactly where it is.
In September 2006 we started looking. We have found the White Rock,
where the cave should be, but we didn't found a cave as pictured in
the guide.
A good friend
of us promised to look for it this winter and if he finds it we'll go
there together in 2007.
Never the
less I would like to show you some pictures we took from the area. Also
below the text from the guide Best Of Summer In Kos:
Significant
findings of the Prehistoric era were discovered in Kos. From the 3rd
to the 17th of June 1922 Alesandro Della Sefa, director of the Italian
Archaeological School in Athens, with Doro Levi dug up the cave of Aspri
Petra on the mountain Zini in Kefalos.
The cave of Aspri Petra is one of the most important findings of the
prehistoric era. According to those findings the cave is chronological
placed to the early Neolithic era and the very early Bronze Age (3000
BC). Human fossils, Neolithic shards and other findings were found.
The important of that cave must be pointed out. It used to be a place
of worship. There have been discovered findings not only of the prehistoric
era but also of the later times - till the Roman era. It is considered
to be one of the oldest monuments of the island.
According to the earthen pots that wee found in the cave, the worship
of the Gods went on even until the Roman era.
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