"Bejeweled" with impressive stalactite and stalagmite formations and holding an abundance of fossils, the cave soon attracted geologists and paleontologists.

After decades of excavations the cave is open to the public and scientific work is documented and presented in an adjacent archaeological museum.

Two men were lowered down and later described a large number of chambers and corridors, totaling 8 to 10 meters high with rich and beautiful formations of speleothems (stalactites and stalagmites).

[2] "The rock formations resemble giant cactus, pink pearls, sturdy columns or delicate curtains, and in several places water ponds are fed by stalactite material.

However, in 1997, after 15 years of trials, the Anthropological Association of Greece was justified by the Supreme Court and ordered to continue its works in the cave.

[5] Poulianos repeatedly accused the Greek government of conspiring to suppress his discoveries, as evidenced by the revocation of excavation rights again in 2011.

Poulianos, on the other hand, believed that the Petralona cranium is derived from an independent class of hominids unrelated to Homo erectus.

These finds are archaeological remains, which give us valuable information about the animals hunted by the cave's occupants, as well as about the way they managed the game-animal resources.