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This page and the next is intended as a mix of recent news about archeological discoveries in Greece (including ancient Greeks now in other countries) and the webmaster’s relevant discoveries on the internet. Posts are in reverse chronological order. Items about ancient Greece of general interest are found on the Ancient Greece Interest page. AnotherContinue reading “New Discoveries”

Cape Sounion and its temple were always a welcome sight for sailors as they approached Athens. Perched on the heights of the cape, the temple was appropriately dedicated to the god of the sea, Poseidon. The beauty of the remains of the temple and its situation were not lost on the english poet, Lord Byron.Continue reading “Sounion”

You shouldn’t miss ancient Corinth. It’s easy to reach from Athens, and is on the way to other sites such as Mycenae and Epidavros. Corinth was one of the major cities of antiquity. It was made up of three parts; the acropolis on the hill (Acrocorinth), the city itself on a lower plateau, and itsContinue reading “Corinth”

It is amazing that ancient Olympia existed at all. The Greeks were constantly at war with one another. And that was when they weren’t fighting the Persians. Someone once described the ancient Greek way of life as ”a period of perpetual warfare punctuated by outbreaks of peace”. Some of those times of peace occurred everyContinue reading “Olympia”

Today the island of Paros is a natural hub for several major ferry routes as it has been a hub for passing humanity since at least the Neolithic period.  Evidence of settlement about 4,000 B.C. as well as the well-known Cycladic figurines  in graves from around 3,000 to 2,000 B.C have been found on the tiny island ofContinue reading “Paros”