Palace tour

One of the gate buildings

Surviving palm trees

Two storey central building

Courtyard and central building

Palm tree at the courtyard

They came outside the hall, past the large wall of the court and they sat down in front of the gates, Homer writes.

Keen observers might conclude from this that there was a hall, a long wall and a gate, which would logically be oriented towards the harbour to see the ship coming in. In order to locate any of these parts we scrambled inside the ruins, where we discovered nothing but rubble and bushes.