Among the most significant collections are the grave goods from the Early Minoan cemetery of Agia Fotia near Sitia (3000–2300 BC), displayed in the first gallery, and the finds from the Palace of Malia, uncovered through the excavations of the French Archaeological School, exhibited in the fourth gallery. The museum houses collections of highly important archaeological finds from across Eastern Crete, an area stretching from Malia to the distant site of Zakros. The museum’s most famous exhibit, the “Goddess of Myrtos,” is an exceptional libation vessel dating to the EM IIb period. It is shaped as a stylized female deity with a very small head set on a tall, slender neck and a bell-shaped body. With her right hand she holds, and with her left embraces, a small beak-spouted jug, which served as the unique outlet for liquid from the interior of the vessel.