Tag: Ancient Greece

The mines of Laurion played an integral part in the emergence of Athens as a Greek superpower.

The mines abundant silver not only made Athens one of the wealthiest cities in Ancient Greece, but it provided the resources necessary to build a fleet large enough to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis in 480BCE.

In this video, we are going to discuss the production of silver in Laurion and to show the remains of the facilities, like washeries, cisterns, decanters, galleries, ovens and more…

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Pan was one of the most important God of the classical era for Athenians, due to historical circunstancies…

In this video, we covered who was Pan, why was he adored and we visited all the sanctuaries around Athens, including Mount Poikilo, Mount Parnes, Mount Penteli, Mount Hymettus and Oinoe.

The border between Ancient Athens, Ancient Megara and Ancient Beotia contains some of the best preserved ruins of continental Greece.

In this video, we are going to visit two ancient watch towers spectacularly well preserved, near Psatha, Greece.

In this video, we explore Nemea, host of the ancient Nemean games, also dedicated to Zeus, like the Olympic Games.

We visited the stadium, the main archaeological site and the archeological museum.