Priniatikos Pyrgos

Priniatikos Pyrgos is an archaeological site near the Istron River in the eastern Cretan regional unit of Lasithi (Greece).

Since 2007, Priniatikos Pyrgos has been undergoing excavation by an international team under the auspices of the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens.

Edith Hayward Hall (Dohan) of the University of Pennsylvania Museum pioneered archaeological work in eastern Crete.

She excavated the Bronze and Early Iron Age refuge settlement of Vrokastro (2 km east of Pirgos), above the river Istron Valley.

After that, in 1912, she started a brief excavation on the coastal promontory of Priniatikos Pyrgos, where she believed a Minoan harbor town was located.