At the Minoan settlement of Gournia in Lasithi, eastern Crete, a flight of stone steps turns at a right angle to form an L-shaped stairway. These steps once linked different levels of the Bronze Age town, and they survive as a rare trace of Minoan street architecture. The site flourished across the third and second millennia BCE, through the Early and Middle Minoan periods. The steps offer a direct, unadorned glimpse into how people moved through a densely built hillside town, climbing between terraces and neighborhoods in the ordinary course of daily life.
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