Mochlos is one of the oldest settlements of Crete and dates back to the Minoan period. It is a coastal village, situated within a small distance from Siteia, which is the biggest town of the general area. As with the other areas of Crete that are inhabited since antiquity, in Mochlos lots of important findings of the Minoan period were discovered, notably vessels made of clay and stone, bronze items and utensils, jewellery and others. Due to its geographical positioning right next to the sea, Mochlos constituted an important commercial port with a significant financial flourishing, a fact that is rather obvious on the findings that back to this period. Lots of those are today hosted in museums all over Crete, especially in the archaeological museums of Agios Nikolaos and Heraklion. The excavations on the area are continued until today, in search of more discoveries of the glorious past.