On the Greek island of Dascalio, archaeologists have discovered a complex drainage system and a huge metalworking workshop. About this on Wednesday, January 24, reports IFLScience. It is noted that the age of these structures exceeds 4 thousand years. Scientists believe that in the third millennium BC builders made stepped terraces on this island and covered them with a white stone that was brought from the island of Naxos. It is located at a distance of 10 kilometers from Dascalio. This is the largest artificial structure, built on the Cycladic islands in the southern Aegean Sea. Also on the island there are traces of a network of drainage canals and workshops, where metal was processed. In 2017, scientists discovered two workshops in which there were a lot of metal debris, a lead ax, molds for casting bronze daggers and spearheads. In addition, fragments of ceramic tanks for melting metal. At the very end of the excavation season, an intact clay smelting furnace. Since there are no deposits of ore on the island, raw materials were probably imported from the mainland. "In the light of this data, we need to reconsider what we know about the existing ways of exchanging," stressed archaeologists. Let's remind, earlier in the north of Estonia scientists have found the most ancient eye.

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