# Malia, Quartier Mu · Place

> Minoan town quarter and palace site. In Cretan Hieroglyphic.

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Place · Minoan town quarter · in 1 mystery

# Malia, Quartier Mu

Minoan town quarter and palace site

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)[1 event][1 source][35.2935° N, 25.4890° E]

Malia, Quartier Mu is a minoan town quarter in the record of Cretan Hieroglyphic, placed to about 1 km.

One event happened here: The Middle Minoan II hieroglyphic deposits at Malia Quartier Mu and Petras are written and buried in destructions, -1799.

The Wikidata item is the palace of Malia; Quartier Mu is not a separate item.

Written from the site's records. [Improve it](https://mysteriesdept.com/developers)

Placed from Approximate position of Quartier Mu a few hundred metres west of the palace of Malia, from general reference; not checked against OpenStreetMap in this session. · Placed to about 1 km[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic#map)

## In the mysteries

**Cretan Hieroglyphic**

Minoan town quarter and palace site · 1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

[What did the clay documents and the seal inscriptions record?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX1A1NMX2/what-did-the-clay-documents-and-the-seal-inscriptions-record)Open: no answer ahead yet

[Do the Malia altar stone and the Arkalochori axe belong to Cretan Hieroglyphic?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/questions/QST0DEDX68Z885Q/do-the-malia-altar-stone-and-the-arkalochori-axe-belong-to)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What happened here 1

-1799[The Middle Minoan II hieroglyphic deposits at Malia Quartier Mu and Petras are written and buried in destructions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/events/EVT0DEDRZGCPSEW/the-middle-minoan-ii-hieroglyphic-deposits-at-malia-quartier)

at [Petras, Siteia](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDPW4PGGD7/petras-siteia)

## Nearby within 500 km

[Dreros](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDSW22GYS0/dreros)

ancient city

8 km SE

[Arkalochori cave](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D1GG2S455N7/arkalochori-cave)

sacred cave

27 km SW

[Arkalochori cave](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQBHYM2QS/arkalochori-cave)

sacred cave

27 km SW

[Knossos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDPKDTVAWE/knossos)

Minoan palace site

30 km W

[Archanes-Phourni cemetery](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQ4851DSS/archanes-phourni-cemetery)

Minoan cemetery

31 km W

[Heraklion Archaeological Museum](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic/places/PLC0DEDQF47G831/heraklion-archaeological-museum)

museum

32 km W

## Sources 1

[Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (CHIC)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGHHEQ8AC/corpus-hieroglyphicarum-inscriptionum-cretae-chic)

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Malia, Quartier Mu [Place PLC0DEDPQCFS0DJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DEDPQCFS0DJ
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Key

**PLC** 0DEDPQCFS0DJ

Record

Place

Kind

Minoan town quarter

Position

35.2935° N, 25.4890° E

Precision

About 1 km

Placed from

Approximate position of Quartier Mu a few hundred metres west of the palace of Malia, from general reference; not checked against OpenStreetMap in this session.

In

[Cretan Hieroglyphic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cretan-hieroglyphic)

Version

1

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[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

[ Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1151469)

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