Vrokastro was an ancient Minoan civilization settlement in the Lasithi regional unit of eastern Crete, Greece.
[1] In 1910-1912, American archaeologist Edith Hall Dohan, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum excavated here the ruins of a Minoan period settlement.
She uncovered a Middle Minoan and Early Iron Age settlement on the peak and north slope, elevation 300 m. Hall excavated burials from 1200 B.C.
Scholars believe that the latest burials from the corbel-vaulted tombs at Vrokastro probably are concurrent with the central Cretan Protogeometric Style.
A new Vrokastro Survey Project was initiated by Dr. Barbara J. Hayden (Senior Research Scientist, Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum).