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The city also had a particularly advanced system of drainage, sophisticated in its construction and large enough to serve all the buildings. The pre-historic inhabitants of Akrotiri had toilets on the upper floor of their houses, while you can still find modern houses on the island with only a toilet in the yard!
Take a look at the clay pipe set into the wall just before you arrive at the three-cornered city square. Unlike the Minoan palaces, this was a civilization with a more human face and a fairer distribution of wealth a place where the people enjoyed a higher standard of living.
Stop to examine the House of the Admiral: by the window on the second floor a loom was found - in your imagination you can still hear it singing as the cloth is woven. It was here that the archaeologist Spyros Marinates died in 1974 - he is buried in the first building to the left as you follow Telchinon St. to the exit.
It is believed that this street led to the harbor. From the window of the same building a plaster cast of a bed can be seen, from which we conclude that the people of Akrotiri were very small in physical build. At least one room in every house, which has been explored so far, was decorated with wall paintings.
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