The opening of the cave is located 257m above sea level on the Zini hill, which is 3km away from the Kefalos settlement and 33km away from the town of Kos. It was created 100 million years ago from heavily deformed ash-white limestone. In 1922, the Italian archaeologists A. Seta and D. Levi discovered ancient jar fragments, millstones, human fossils, blades made from obsidian, food relics and objects for cosmetic use that were made of bones in the cave. Most of them date back to the Early Helladic period and are related to the movement of the Pelasgians from mainland Greece and Asia Minor to the islands of the Aegean. More recent findings belonging to the Greek Dark Ages and the Hellenistic Period show that the cave was used as a place of worship of rural deities.
Kos The Cave of Aspri Petra
