Lelanton, also known as Lefkandi, was a city between Chalcis and Eretria on the island of Euboea. The city flourished in the mid-12th century and prospered during the Greek 'Dark Ages' (1100 - 800 BC).
Recent excavations there have shown that it was one of the first places in Greece to obtain luxury goods from West Asia, including glass, beads of faience (an attractive blue glassy material made from quartz sand, soda and copper ore), and blue frit (a mixture of sand and other material used for glass making).
Nearby at Toumba were found important burials which also contained gold jewellery and other products from West Asia, including the rare find of an Egyptian ring. One building overlaid the tomb of a warrior whose bones and ashes were buried in an amphora with decorated reliefs.
