Gortyna archaeological site

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Site that has been inhabited since Neolithic times, but reached its pinnacle after it became the capital of Roman Crete around 67 BCE. At that time, there was believed to be as many as 100,000 residents. Highlights include a Roman Odeon (theater), stone tablets with the oldest law code in the ancient Greek world inscribed on it, the tree under which Zeus seduced Europa, the 6th-century CE Byzantine Basilica of Agios Titos.