 Finally, as the Persians reached the Phaedriads, boulders cleaved from the cliffs and, without hitting the monuments and the sacred site, fell on the Persians and crushed them.Herodotus mentions that in his day, one could see these rocks embedded in the ground within the sacred precinct of Athena Pronaia.It is also claimed that in antiquity, those who committed sacrilege against the sanctuary were thrown from the cliffs .