Archaeological Site of Aptera - Samonas Traditional Houses in Chania, Crete, Greece

Archaeological Site of Aptera

Written sources and excavations so far show that the city’s greatest prosperity was during the Hellenistic times (end of the 4th – 3rd centuries BC) when it began to cut its own coins becoming economically and politically stronger. One side of the coin depicted the goddess Artemis and the other the king of Aptera, Apollo […]