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However, excavations began in the 1850s and the Odeon is once again holding spectacular summer performances.
The west wing — as at Knossós — was chiefly made up of shrines and storerooms and many objects of ritual were found during excavations here.
The whole area was razed during Barbarian attacks in the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire and was covered with new buildings during Byzantine times, all of which had to be cleared when excavations began.
It was the repository for gold coins paid by the French as reparations after the Franco-Prussian War, and returned as part payment for reparations following World War I. The Heimatmuseum (Local History Museum) in the Zitadelle contains an exhibition of Jewish gravestones, found during excavations here, which date back to the 13th century.
The castle has always been considered the heart of Edinburgh, but its site is older than the city itself: Excavations show evidence of settlement in the Bronze Age (ca.