GREECE CRETE LASITHI AGIOS NIKOLAOS

Scattered throughout modern Agios Nikolaos are remains of ancient Kamara (Lato pros Kamara). It was the port of Lato with steadily increasing importance. In the middle of the second century AD, the administration moved to Kamara, and Lato was abandoned.

Worth visiting in Agios Nikolaos is the Archaeological Museum, erected in 1970 (and not upgraded since then), housing important finds from eastern Crete. - Below: Cycladic "frying pans" from Agia Fotia, first half of the 3rd millenium BC.

Above from left to right: Gold jewelry from the island of Mochlos, Early Minoan II-III. Goddess with upraised hands; from a Late Minoan IIIC shrine (12th century BC) at Ierapetra, Kefala Vasilikis. Burial pithos (Late Minoan III), transported exactly as found in the Protogeometric cemetery of Krya.

Below: Giant Minoan pithoi and one of the Minoan larnakes, of which the museum has a stupendous collection.