[blam]

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[AntiGuv]

This kind of thing is always neat, but not exactly a revelation here. Anyone with a history book could've figured out where to find the Mycenaean Era port - so long as you were willing to tear down the buildings to look for it.. As I'm sure you know, Athens is one of those cities where if you dig, you find.

They have a really neat display in one of the subway stations renovated for the Olympics that shows a cross-section of the artefacts uncovered as they dug out the expansion - glassed off where they found them. Once in a while when I'm in Athens, I do wonder what spectacular undiscovered ruin might be lying just beyond the subway walls. :)

[T. P. Pole]

The site, some 350 meters from the modern coastline,

But, I thought the ocean was rising.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam! Great story. The Piraeus was resorted to in order to handle larger vessels and more traffic. Lionel Casson writes that the grain haulers built for the Egypt to Greece run were so large only a handful of places could handle them (e.g. the Piraeus, Rhodes, and Alexandria). Grain was a major import because 70 per cent of Greece wasn't tillable and there was a population boom.

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[SunkenCiv]

Good old "Theseus and the Argonauts". ;')

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/argonauts.html

[SunkenCiv]

there's an apartment for sale in that neighborhood, 65 sq meters for 320,000 Euros.

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