Lyktos

[4][5][6] In 344 BC, Phalaecus the Phocis assisted the Knossians against their neighbors the Lyktians, and took the city of Lyktos, from which he was driven out by Archidamus, king of Sparta.

During the Lyttian War in 220 BC the Knossians, taking advantage of their absence on a distant expedition, surprised Lyktos, and utterly destroyed it.

[citation needed] Lyktos was sacked by the Roman general Metellus,[9] but was existing in the time of Strabo[10] at a distance of 80 stadia (15 km) from the Libyan Sea.

[12] In the 16th century, Venetian manuscripts[13] describe the walls of the ancient city, with circular bastions, and other fortifications, as existing upon a lofty mountain, nearly in the centre of the island.

A new five-year research program commenced in 2021, whose first year yielded significant findings the most important of which was a headless marble statue of Hadrian.