Pseira (Greek: Ψείρα) is an islet in the Gulf of Mirabello in northeastern Crete with the archaeological remains of Minoan and Mycenean civilisation.

Pseira is a small uninhabited island, a couple kilometers off the coast of Crete: opposite Tholos Beach and close to another Minoan center—Mochlos. Translated from Greek, Pseira (Ψείρα) means “louse”: apparently, the outlines of the island reminded this name’s inventors of it.

Pseira is a small island located on the eastern side of the Gulf of Mirabello. It had substantial settlement in only two historical periods, the Minoan Bronze Age and the Early Byzantine period.

Pseira is only about 2 kilometers long. It is located just off the coast of northeast Crete, at the eastern end of the Gulf of Mirabello (Fig. 2). The Bronze Age town, set around the island’s most protected cove, was a prosperous village with over BO buildings at its greatest size.

The dams and water management systems of Minoan Pseira / Philip P. Betancourt. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-931534-66-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Pseira (Extinct city) 2. Pseira Island (Greece)—Antiquities. 3. Excavations (Archaeology)—Greece—Pseria Island. 4. Bronze age—Greece—Pseria Island. 5.

Pseira is a small uninhabited island, a couple of kilometres off the coast of Crete and a stone's throw away from another Minoan centre at Mochlos. A small peninsula on the south side of the island provided the Minoans with a harbour -- basically little more than a small beach -- protected from the north winds.

Pseira Island is located at the eastern end of the Gulf of Mirabello in Northeast Crete (Pls. 2, 3). It is a rocky island with little soil cover, oriented NE to SW. The longest dimension is ca. 2.5 km, and it is just over 1 km wide at its widest point. The total land area is 1.75 square kilometers. Pseira has a rich history.

A ship transporting cargo from the coastal region of the Mirabello Bay sank near Pseira in Middle Minoan (MM) IIB, around the second half of the 18thcentury b.c. This was a

The minute, barren cliff-bound coastal island of Pseira (modern Gk. Psira) in the Gulf of Mirabella in northeastern Crete is a Minoan site that was explored in 1906–07 by Richard Seager and partially documented by Halvor Bagge in ink and watercolors based on photographs (University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1910), and more minutely ...

The archaeological survey of Pseira Island was a part of the Pseira Project, an American-Greek collaboration (synergasia) directed jointly by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras. It is published in two parts. Pseira VIII includes several studies that aid in the interpretation of the entire body of research, and Pseira IX includes