Thermi
Thermi
an ancient city on the island of Lesbos, which existed during the Neolithic period and the early Bronze Age, from the early third millennium B.C. to circa 1200 B.C. Thermi was excavated between 1929 and 1933 by the British scientist W. Lamb. The five superimposed levels of the site show the uninterrupted development of Thermi from a small village with two-room dwellings and copper foundries to a large city with defensive walls, paved streets, and bronze foundries (c. 25th century B.C.). In the second millennium B.C., Thermi was a center of Cretan-Mycenaean culture; in the 14th and 13th centuries B.C., it was a center of the cult of Hera.