The museum showcases an extensive collection spanning from the Prehistoric to Hellenistic eras, featuring bronze and marble statues, funeral offerings, ancient coins, clay pottery, golden jewellery, and fragments from ancient temples. Among the notable exhibits is the awe-inspiring Medusa pediment from the temple of Artemis, dating back to 585 BC. Additionally, visitors can marvel at the stone lion of Menecrates, a likely funeral offering to the renowned politician, a limestone pediment from the temple of Dionysus, 13 identical small statues of goddess Artemis, and a marble torso of Apollo.

The Mummification Museum in Luxor is the best place to learn about the secrets of the pharaohs. Take your time to reflect and dwell upon ancient Egyptian history, culture and traditions surrounding the funerary process, the very key element in ancient Egyptian belief systems.

Further inland, in the southern part of the island, lie the so-called masticochoria (mastic villages). These well-preserved, fortified villages date from the 14th-16th centuries and were centres for the cultivation of mastic. Mastic is the sweet-tasting gum of the lentisk bush, which was exported all over the Mediterranean – and the area still produces around 300 tonnes of mastic every year. The most picturesque villages are Pyrgi, with its houses decorated in black and white geometric patterns called xysta Mesta, where towers and walls surround a baffling labyrinth of village streets as well as Olympoi and Vessa are all a worth a visit.