Malia (also Mallia) is a Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site located on the northern coast of Crete about 3 kilometers east and inland from the modern village of Malia. It is about 35 kilometers east of the ancient site of Knossos. It was occupied from the Neolithic periiod (ca 6000 BC -attested only by potsherds) until about 1250 BC..
The site of Malia was inhabited in the Neolithic and early Minoan period (6000- 2000 BC
Sources:
- http://ancient-greece.org/archaeology/malia.html
- http://www.minoancrete.com/malia.htm
- Tristan Carter, and Vassilis Kilikoglou, "From reactor to royalty? Aegean and Anatolian obsidians from Quartier Mu, Malia (Crete)", Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 20.1, pp. 115-143, 2007
- Jean-Claude Poursat "Malia: Palace, State, City", British School at Athens Studies, vol. 18, pp. 259–267, 2010