Town was located on a small hill at the north of Ierapetra town, near the modern village of Vasiliki from which it takes its name. Early Minoan setllement contains the remains of mud-brick housing and stone cellars. There were existed two types of houses: the Red House and the West House.
Sources:
- http://www.minoancrete.com/vasiliki.htm
- John C. McEnroe, Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age, University of Texas Press 2010, pp. 22nn
- Richard B. Seager, Report of excavations at Vasiliki Crete, in 1904 in:University of Pennsylvania Transactions of the Free Museum of Science and Art,1 (1904), pp. 207-221
- Richard B. Seager, Report of excavations at Vasiliki Crete, in 1906 in:University of Pennsylvania Transactions of the Free Museum of Science and Art, 2 (1906), pp. 111-132 -http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/volltexte/2014/2153