In this video, we explore 6 grafitis from Ancient Greece, located in the area of Laurion, next to the ancient mines of silver., including the farm of Timesios, the graffiti of Lykinos and How to visit the graffitis.
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The town of Ancient Epidaurus
In this video, we visited Mycenaean and roman tombs, underwater ruins, the acropolis, the defensive walls and more.
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The underwater ruins of Laurion
In this video, we explore the underwater ruins in Laurion area in Greece, famous in antiquity for the silver mines, visiting 2 amazing beaches: Pounta Zeza and Limani Pasa.
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The silver mines of Laurion
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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The caves of Pan in Athens
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.
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The Greek Pyramid of Kambia
In the 5th episode of this series, we are going to explore the blockhouse of Kambia, which is one of the ancient greek buildings considered in the group of pyramids.
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Ancient Piraeus
In this video, we explore some of the ruins of Ancient Piraeus and recount the history of the city from it’s inception until the abandonment.
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.
In this episode, we explore in detail the Sanctuary of Aphrodite on the Sacred Way.
This sanctuary is extremely famous due to its location next to a main road to go to Athens, but it is unknown to foreigners.
In this video, we explore the sanctuary, the museum of the Sacred Way, the walls of Eleusis and the western cemetery.