Delos

Greek · Greece

Field notes

civilizations

GreekRoman

types

Village

built

700 BCE — 100 BCE

occupied

900 BCE — 100 CE

country

Greece

The site

Delos is a tiny Greek island near Mykonos, at the heart of the Cyclades, barely 3.43 square kilometres yet one of the most important archaeological sites in the country. Held as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, it served as a holy sanctuary for a millennium and later a cosmopolitan Mediterranean port. Excavations here, among the most extensive in the region, earned it UNESCO World Heritage status in 1990.

Nearby sites

~116 km

Akrotiri

~151 km

Acropolis of Athens

~168 km

Elefsina

~178 km

Miletus