Petrified Forest

A team of experts hoists the petrified trunk of a 20-million-year-old tree on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, Friday.

Excavations by researchers at the Natural History Museum for the Lesvos Petrified Forest took place near road works for the construction of a new road from the towns of Kalloni to Sigrio on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos. The scientists responsible for preserving other sections of the ‘Petrified Forest’ found new traces of fossilized tree trunks.

Lesbos, an island conquered by Fatih Sultan Mehmet in 1462, became a refuge for rebellious and stubborn Turkmens refusing assimilation. It later became a stronghold against pirates, where a castle still stands today The trip on Lesbos to the remote village of Sigri is, considering this is just an island, quite long.