Incipit-CSIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN 2019
Incipit-CSIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN 2019The archaeological site of Xiis is a tumuli field found 1 km east of the village of Xiis, under the shadow of the Majilin hill and in front of a small volcanic island which constitutes a geographic benchmark in the coast. The site was first mentioned by Georges Revoils, who visited it in 1881 and found Roman materials in some of the tombs. He also identified the site with the old Mosyllon, a trade port used by the Greek sailors which appears described in the Peryplus of the Erythrean Sea, a Greek text of the 1st century AD. In 1975 the place was visited by Neville Chittick, who excavated a couple of looted tumuli in the area.
