The excavation of Zominthos has not been published and so information about the site is extremely limited. Zominthos is situated high up in the foothills of Psiloritis in a very isolated area that is home mainly to sheep and goats. This is what I have managed to find out:

"At Zominthos, on the Minoan road up to the Idaian Cave, a massive building has been partly excavated that may have served as a caravanserai, or a hotel for visitors... From Tylissos, a direct Minoan route would have led through the gorge on the slopes of the Ida massif up to Sklavokambos and eventually up to Zominthos and the Idaian Cave... Dry masonry constitutes entire walls at Zominthos... Z. has windows. The site was not destroyed by fire, and its main period seems (no pottery has been published) to be Neopalatial." (From John Younger).

According to Antonis Vasilakis, in his guide book to Crete, the name of Zominthos is pre-hellenic. The site is 1200 metres above sea level and was discovered in 1982. From 1986 excavations uncovered an important neopalatial LM IA building. A door and two windows in the north facade are among the best preserved in Minoan Crete. The building dominates one of the main Minoan routes up to Psiloritis and may have been used as a stay-over point for visitors making their way to the Idaean cave. The building is well preserved and some of the walls still stand to a height of 2.5 metres. The building had two floors and was destroyed by an earthquake, followed by a fire which burnt the floors, ceiling and roof of the building. The central structure was about 600 square metres and some of the walls were coated with white plaster. Of the sixteen rooms that the building was thought to have had, only one has been fully excavated. Finds in this room included a potter's wheel, a cistern and remains of worked clay, all of which indicate that the room was a potter's workshop.

The site seems to consist of three main areas. First of all there is the main building, shown here in photos 1-5. An adjacent area is shown in photos 10 and 11. A completely separate area is shown in photos 6-9.