Pashley was one of the foremost researchers of
Cretan culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. Pashley was the first one to work out the location of the ancient buried city of
Cydonia, relying only on ancient literature, without the aid of
archaeological recovery. In his travel to Crete in 1830 he observed that Greek was the common language of the island that was then part of the Ottoman Empire, even though a substantial part of the population was then Muslim. ==References==