The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of

Milos Milos or Melos (; , ; ) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. It is the southwestern-most island of the Cyclades group. The ''Venus de Milo'' (now in the Louvre), the ''Poseidon of Melos'' (now in the ...

in the

Cyclades The CYCLADES computer network () was a French research network created in the early 1970s. It was one of the pioneering networks experimenting with the concept of packet switching and, unlike the ARPANET, was explicitly designed to facilitate i ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

, dating to the 1st-5th century AD. The catacombs are found near the modern settlement of

Trypiti Trypiti () is a small town in the island of Milos, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, ...

, next to the site of the

agora The agora (; , romanized: ', meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Ancient Greece, Greek polis, city-states. The literal meaning of the word "agora" is "gathering place" or "assembly". The agora was the center ...

of the ancient city of Melos and 200 m to the east of the ancient theatre. The name Trypiti (Τρυπητή, "made with ''holes'' �ρύπες)The name is a feminine ‘stranded adjective’. derives from the fact that the surrounding area is full of caves cut into the porous volcanic rock, which are still used by the inhabitants as storerooms and stables. In ancient times, these caves were used as family burial chambers. The galleries are of differing widths, ranging from 1 to 5 metres in width and from 1.6 to 2.5 metres in height. In addition to the tombs cut into the walls, there are also many graves cut into the ground and covered with unworked stones of irregular sizes. It is underground.

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Official website
* http://www.greeka.com/cyclades/milos/milos-excursions/catacombs-milos.htm * http://www.greek-islands.us/milos/catacombs/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20140924043450/http://www.exploguide.com/site/catacombs-milos {{Coord missing, Greece Ancient Milos

Tourist attractions in the South Aegean Archaeological sites on the Aegean Islands Ancient cemeteries in Greece