The Kaminian Column
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In 1885, in the ruins of St. Alexander's Church, the "Kaminian Column" was discovered while a farmer was clearing his field from the stones.
The shape of the Kaminian sepulchral column, of pelasgical period, is a rectangle measuring 0.95 x 0.40 x 0.14 meters in size and depicts the head of a warrior holding a shield and a spear, and around it there are two inscriptions written in the western Greek alphabet that are considered the oldest text of the Greek Limnian language.
After many adventures, it was donated to the "National Archeological Museum" in Athens by the Vasilios Apostolidis.