Archaeological Sites in Greece
City/town/settlement in Greece (153)
Achilleion, Thessaly
Achilleion is an early Neolithic site in Thessaly, Greece. It was partly excavated in the 1970s. Achilleion is a stratified Early and Middle Neolithic tell of 200 x 260 m.…
Acontisma
Acontisma or Akontisma, also called Hercontroma or Herkontroma, was a settlement in ancient Macedon near the border of Thrace on the coast and on the Via Egnatia, 8 or 9 miles…
Aigeira
The archaeological site of ancient Aigeira is located approximately 6 km from the modern town. It is an important site for the Mycenaean and later periods, with particularly…
Akrotiri - Prehistoric City
A Cycladic Bronze Age settlement on Santorini, Greece, associated with Minoan civilization through Linear A inscriptions and artistic parallels. First inhabited in the 5th…
Alogonia - Town
Alagonia was an ancient town near the Laconia-Messenia border in the Peloponnese, Greece. Pausanias lists it among the cities of the Free Laconians (Eleuthero-Lacones), situated…
Amfissa
Ancient city in central Greece and capital of the Ozolian Locrians, with a history spanning roughly 3,000 years. Recent excavations uncovered a Mycenaean tomb in use from the 13th…
Amnisos
Amnisos is the current but unattested name given to a Bronze Age settlement on the north shore of Crete that was used as a port to the palace city of Knossos. The historic…
Amphipolis
Amphipolis was an important ancient Greek polis, and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen. Amphipolis was originally a colony of ancient Athens and was the…
Ancient Cassope
Ancient Cassope was a fortified Greek city founded in the mid-4th century BC on the slopes of Mount Zalongo near modern Kamarina, serving as the capital of the Kassassopaeans, a…
Ancient City of Philippi
Founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC to control nearby gold mines, Philippi sits on the Via Egnatia in northeastern Greece. Site of the pivotal 42 BC battle where Octavian…
Ancient Corinth
One of ancient Greece's most powerful city-states, occupied since before 3000 BC and flourishing from the 8th century BC as a major commercial center on the isthmus linking the…
Ancient Eleon
A town in ancient Boeotia mentioned in Homer's Catalogue of Ships alongside Hyle and Peteon. Located near modern Arma, it has been excavated since 2011 by the Eastern Boeotia…
Ancient Kymissala
The archaeological site of ancient Kymissala is located about 70 km southwest of Rhodes city, and today falls within the limits of the Municipality of Atavyros. This is one of the…
Ancient Lilaia
Lilaea or Lilaia, also Lilaeum or Lilaion, was one of the most important ancient Phocian towns, and a polis, built on the north slopes of Mount Parnassus, and at the sources of…
Ancient Methone
A Greek colony in coastal Pieria, Macedonia, founded by Eretrian settlers around 733/732 BC. Famous for the siege of 354 BC when Philip II of Macedon captured the city and lost…
Ancient Pydna
At the site of the ancient Pydna, the visible buildings are from the Byzantine era. The remains of the ancient Polis from the Classical, Hellenistic and, possibly, pre-Greek…
Ancient Sparta
Ancient Sparta was built on the banks of the Eurotas, the largest river of Laconia, which provided it with a source of fresh water. The Eurotas valley was a natural fortress,…
Ancient Thera
Ancient Thera is an archaeological site from classical antiquity on the island of Santorini, which sits on the top of a limestone hill called Mesa Vouno. Starting in 1895,…
Apodoulou
Apodoulou is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan mansion or ceremonial building on Crete. It overlooks the Libyan Sea from an altitude of 450 metres above sea level.…
Aptera, Greece
Aptera was one of the most important city-states of ancient Crete, located near Souda Bay in western Crete. First mentioned as A-pa-ta-wa in Linear B tablets from the 14th-13th…
Archaeological Area, Stymphalos
The Archaeological Area of Stymphalos in Arcadia, Greece, contains the ruins of a city refounded in the 4th century BC on a grid plan. Excavations have revealed houses, a theatre,…
Archaeological Site, Argos
Argos, in the Peloponnese region of Greece, was a major Mycenaean settlement during the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE) and remained a prominent city throughout the Greek,…
Archaeological Site of Ancient Thasos
Ruins of a prosperous colony on the north Aegean island of Thasos, founded by settlers from Paros led by Telesicles, father of the poet Archilochus. The city grew wealthy from…
Archaeological Site of Kamiros
Kamiros was an ancient Dorian polis on Rhodes' northwest coast, 3 km west of modern Kalavarda. One of the three powerful cities of Rhodes alongside Lindos and Ialyssos, it was the…
Archaeological Site of Plataea
Ancient Boeotian city on a ledge 300 m above sea level on the north slope of Mount Cithaeron. Allied with Athens from c. 519 BC, Plataea sent 1,000 soldiers to the Battle of…
Archanes
Archaeological evidence indicates that ancient Archanes spread out over the same area as the modern town of Archanes. In 1912, Xanthoudides noted the importance of Archanes, but…
Argissa Magoula
Inhabitants practiced mixed agro-pastoralism with domesticated wheat, barley, and livestock.
Argos, Peloponnese
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, with settlement evidence from c. 5000 BCE on Aspida hill. Argos flourished as a Mycenaean center in the 14th-13th…
Argura
Argura, called Argissa (Ἄργισσα) in Homer's Iliad, was a town and polis in Pelasgiotis in ancient Thessaly, on the Peneus, and near Larissa. The name of the town was also given as…
Arna, Greece
A village on the eastern slopes of the Taygetus mountains in Laconia at 700-850 m elevation. At the nearby Arkina site, Mycenaean-era chamber tombs have been found, along with…
Asine
An ancient Greek city on the coast of the Argolid, mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as subject to Diomedes of Argos. Habitation spans from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age and…
Astale
Astale (Ancient Greek: Άστάλη) was a Roman town of ancient Crete. According to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni, it was located on the north coast of Crete, 30 stadia from an unknown…
Axus
Axus (or Axos) was an ancient city on Crete, located inland on the slopes of Mount Ida with its harbour at Astale. According to ancient sources, the city was situated on a river…
Berbati Valley
The Berbati Valley is an archaeological site located in the northeast of the Peloponnese, northeast of Argos. The Swedish Institute at Athens started with archaeological…
Biannus
Biannus or Biannos, or Biennus or Biennos, also Bienna, was an inland town and polis of ancient Crete. It appears in the list of 22 cities of Crete of the sixth-century Byzantine…
Brauron
Brauron was one of the twelve cities of ancient Attica, but never mentioned as a deme, though it continued to exist down to the latest times. Brauron is celebrated on account of…
Camirus
Camirus or Kamiros or Cameirus or Kameiros was a city of ancient Rhodes, in the Dodecanese. Its site is on the northwest coast of the island, 3 kilometres west of the modern…
Chalai, Thessaly
Chalai (or Chalaion) was an ancient Greek settlement in Phthiotis, Thessaly, occupied from the Archaic to Classical periods. The town's name is not directly attested in ancient…
Chania
Chania, on Crete's northwest coast, is built upon the site of ancient Kydonia allegedly founded by King Minos himself. Key discoveries include Linear A and Linear B tablets (the…
Chrisso, Phocis
Chrisso is a modern village in Phocis, Greece, situated north of the ancient city-state of Crissa, which gave its name to the Crissaean Gulf. The settlement lies in the…
Cierium
Cierium or Kierion was a town and polis in the district of Thessaliotis in ancient Thessaly, which according to some ancient commentators, such as Stephanus of Byzantium was the…
Corycus, Crete
Corycus (or Korykos) was an ancient town in northwestern Crete, situated on the peninsula of the same name. The settlement is mentioned by the geographer Ptolemy in his works. The…
Cranon
Cranon or Crannon was a town and polis (city-state) of Pelasgiotis, in ancient Thessaly, situated southwest of Larissa, and at the distance of 100 stadia from Gyrton, according to…
Crissa
Crissa or Krissa or Crisa or Krisa was a town in ancient Phocis. Crissa was regarded as one of the most ancient cities in Greece. It was situated inland a little southwest of…
Daskalio
Daskalio or Dhaskalio is a tiny, uninhabited Greek islet in the Cyclades just off the west coast of the larger island Keros, approximately 150 metres in diameter. Formerly, it was…
Delos
Delos or Dilos, is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago. Though only 3.43 km2 in area, it is one of the most important mythological,…
Demetrias
Demetrias was a Greek city in Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, situated at the head of the Pagasaean Gulf, near the modern city of Volos. In 196 BC, the Romans, victorious in the…
Desfina
Desfina is a town in southern Phocis, Greece. The area has far older significance: on the hill of Kastrouli, a fortified Mycenaean settlement from the 13th-12th century BC…
Dimini
The Dimini area contains both a Mycenean settlement and a Neolithic settlement. The Neolithic settlement in Dimini was discovered near the end of the 19th century and was first…
Dion, Pieria
Dion is an archaeological site at the foot of Mount Olympus in Pieria, Greece, 17 km from Katerini. It was home to a major ancient Macedonian sanctuary dedicated to Zeus,…
Dispilio
Dispilio is a Neolithic lakeside settlement on the shore of Lake Orestiada near Kastoria in western Macedonia, Greece. Discovered in 1932 when low water levels exposed wooden…
Dreros
Dreros, also Driros, near Neapoli in the regional unit of Lasithi, Crete, is a post-Minoan archaeological site, 16 km northwest of Agios Nikolaos. In Hellenistic times, Dreros…
Echinus, Thessaly
Echinus (or Echinos) was an ancient Greek polis on the Malian Gulf between Lamia and Larissa Cremaste in fertile Phthiotid/Malis territory. Legend claims the city derived its name…
Elyrus
Elyrus (or Elyros) was an ancient Cretan city situated between Cydonia and Lissus on the island's south coast, featuring the harbour of Syia located 60 stadia west of Poecilassus.…
Emporio, Chios
Emporio is a prehistoric settlement on the southeastern coast of Chios, Greece, inhabited from the early Neolithic period around 6000 BC through the early Bronze Age. Excavations…
Epidaurus
Epidaurus was an ancient Greek city on the Argolid Peninsula, renowned for its Sanctuary of Asklepios, the most important healing centre of the ancient world. The cult evolved…
Eretria, Thessaly
Eretria was an ancient Thessalian town in the Phthiotis district, located near Pharsalus. During the Second Macedonian War, it was devastated by Philip V of Macedon in 198 BCE. In…
Eva, Arcadia
Eva (or Eua) was an ancient settlement in Arcadia, Greece, situated in the valley of the river Tanos below the north-eastern slopes of the Parnon mountain range, between modern…
Fournou Korifi
Fournou Korifi is the archaeological site of a Minoan settlement on southern Crete. Fournou Korifi was built at the top of a steep hill, with excellent views of the coast. Fournou…
Galaxidi
Galaxidi is a town in Phocis, Greece, built on the site of ancient Haleion, a city of western Locris with habitation since Early Helladic times (c. 3200 BC). A significant…
Glaphyrae
Glaphyrae was a settlement in Magnesia, ancient Thessaly, Greece, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships alongside Boebe and Iolcus. After this reference, the town does not…
Gonnus
Gonnus or Gonnos or Gonni was a town and polis of the Perrhaebi in ancient Thessaly, which derived its name, according to the later Greek critics, from Gonneus. Its position made…
Goritsa, Greece
Goritsa is a hill and an archaeological site in Volos, Greece, immediately east of the city centre. It was examined in the early 1970s by a Dutch team of archaeologists, revealing…
Gortyn
Gortyn is a major archaeological site in the Messara plain of southern Crete, Greece, first inhabited around 7000 BC. It became the administrative capital of the Roman province of…
Gournia
Gournia is the site of a Minoan palace complex in the Lasithi regional unit on the island of Crete, Greece. Its modern name originated from the many stone troughs that are at the…
Gyrton, Thessaly
An ancient city-state of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, Greece, situated in a fertile plain between the Titaresius and Peneius rivers. Mentioned by Homer in the Iliad and described as…
Hagia Triada
Excavations at Hagia Triada have provided crucial evidence concerning Minoan everyday life. Notable finds include the Hagia Triada sarcophagus and the "Harvester Vase". About 150…
Halae
Halae or Halai was a town of ancient Locris, situated upon the Opuntian Gulf, but belonging to Boeotia in the time of Strabo and Pausanias. It is described by Pausanias as…
Ialysus
Ialysus or Ialysos, also Ialyssus or Ialyssos, or Ielyssus or Ielyssos, was a city of ancient Rhodes. Pliny the Elder did not consider it as an independent place at all, but…
Iklaina
Iklaina (Greek: Ίκλαινα) is a historic village in the municipal unit of Pylos, Messenia, Greece, situated in low hills approximately 10 km northeast of Pylos. The settlement…
Iolcus
According to ancient Greek mythology, Aeson was the rightful king of Iolcus, but his half-brother Pelias usurped the throne. It was Pelias who sent Aeson's son Jason and his…
Karfi
Karfi is an archaeological site high up in the Dikti Mountains in eastern Crete, Greece. The ancient name of the site is unknown; "Karfi" ("the nail") is a local toponym for the…
Kavousi Kastro
Kavousi Kastro is an archaeological site in eastern Crete, Greece, about 1.4 km southeast of the modern village of Kavousi. The Kastro is best known as a defensible “refuge”…
Kavousi Vronda
Kavousi Vronda is an archaeological site in eastern Crete, Greece, located about 1.25 km south of the modern village of Kavousi. It is situated in the northern foothills of the…
Kechries
Kechries is situated near a broad bay at the western end of the Saronic Gulf, called Kechries Bay. In ancient times, Kenchreai was one of the two ports of the inland city-state of…
Kephala
Kephala is a hill in northern Crete that hosted a Neolithic settlement. The settlement's footprint was larger than the later Bronze Age Palace of Knossos.
Kephala, Kea
Kephala, Kea is a Late/Final Neolithic settlement on the Greek island of Kea. It is located on a rocky promontory, in the northern part of Kea. The Final Neolithic of the Cyclades…
Knossos
Knossos lies on Kephala hill, in the valley of the Kairatos river, within the modern municipality of Heraklion, about 5 km south of the historic centre. The earliest known…
Kommos, Crete
Kommos is a Minoan harbour town in southern Crete. After the Bronze Age, a sanctuary was constructed over the earlier settlement ruins. The partially excavated site yielded…
Koufonisi, Crete
Koufonisi is an uninhabited Greek islet in the Libyan Sea, 5.6 km south of cape Goudero on Crete's eastern coast. During the summer, the island is visited by tour boats from the…
Lappa, Crete
Lappa was a powerful ancient city-state in Crete, located beneath modern Argyroupoli, 27 km south of Rethymno. According to Mycenaean tradition, the city was founded by Agamemnon.…
Leben, Crete
Leben or Lebena or Lebene was a maritime town of ancient Crete, a harbour of Gortyna, about 70 stadia inland. It possessed a temple of Asclepius, of great celebrity. In the…
Lentas
A coastal settlement on the south coast of Crete, inhabited since the Neolithic and Early Minoan period (3rd millennium BC). Lentas served as one of the two harbours of Gortyn,…
Lepreum
Lepreum was an ancient Greek city-state in Triphylia, a district of Elis in western Peloponnese. Located 40 stadia from the sea at the western end of Mount Minthi, it was built…
Lerna
A prehistoric settlement near the Argolic Gulf in the Peloponnese, inhabited for approximately 5,000 years from the Neolithic to the Mycenaean period (6th-1st millennium BC).…
Lindos
Lindos is an archaeological site in the Dodecanese, Greece. According to myth, Lindos was founded by the Dorians led by the king Tlepolemus of Rhodes, who arrived in about the…
Lindus
Lindus or Lindos (Greek: Λίνδος) was one of the most important towns in ancient Rhodes. In the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad of Homer, Lindus, together with the two other…
Lissus, Crete
Lissus (or Lissos) was an ancient Cretan port city on the island's southern coast, situated between Syia and Calamyde. The city served as one of the harbors for Elyrus.…
Lower Larymna
Lower Larymna was a town in ancient Boeotia, on the river Cephissus. When the Romans united Upper Larymna to Lower Larymna, the inhabitants of the former place were probably…
Lycosura
Lycosura was a city in the ancient Parrhasia region of south Arcadia said by Pausanias to be the oldest city in the world, although there is no evidence for its existence before…
Lygourio
Lygourio is a small town in the Argolis prefecture of Greece, built at the foot of Mount Arachnaion at 370 m elevation. It lies near the UNESCO-listed Sanctuary of Asklepios at…
Magasa, Crete
Magasa (Greek: Μαγκασά) is a Neolithic settlement on the eastern part of Crete, Greece.
Malia, Crete
Malia is a Minoan archaeological site on Crete's northeastern coast, occupied from 3000 to 1500 BC. The ancient settlement ruins lie 3 km east of modern Malia town, covering…
Manika, Greece
Manika was a major Early Helladic II settlement on Euboea, Greece, covering 50-80 hectares and housing an estimated 6,000-15,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest Bronze…
Markiani
Markiani is an Early Bronze Age fortified settlement on a hilltop on the south coast of Amorgos, Greece, and the first rural settlement of the Early Cycladic period to be…
Maroulas, Kythnos
Maroulas is an archaeological site in Kythnos, Greece. It is a Mesolithic settlement located in Loutra and dates back to between 8800 and 8600 BC. Architectural structures, tombs,…
Messene
Ancient Messene was founded in 369 BC by Theban general Epaminondas following Sparta's defeat at the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC), as a fortified stronghold to prevent Spartan…
Metropolis, Thessaly
Metropolis was an ancient Greek polis (city-state) in Upper Thessaly, founded through the synoecism of three minor settlements, later incorporating additional towns including…
Midea, Argolid
Midea was one of the three principal Mycenaean centres in the Argolid alongside Mycenae and Tiryns, occupying the highest Mycenaean acropolis at 270m elevation. The citadel is…
Mitrou
Mitrou is a 3.6-hectare tidal islet in the Bay of Atalanti, East Lokris, Central Greece, continuously occupied from the Early Helladic II period (ca. 2650 BC) through the…
Mochlos
Mochlos is a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Mirabello in eastern Crete, and the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement. There is evidence that Mochlos was…
Monastiraki, Crete
Monastiraki is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan town on the island of Crete. The site is on the plain of Amari, west of the Ida massif, 38 kilometres from Rethymnon.…
Mycenae
A major Bronze Age citadel in the Argolid, northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the center of the Mycenaean civilization that dominated the eastern Mediterranean. At its peak, it…
Myrtos Pyrgos
Pyrgos (also Myrtos-Pyrgos; Greek: Πύργος [στο Μύρτος]) is an archaeological site of the Minoan civilization near Myrtos in the municipality of Ierapetra on the south coast of…
Mytilene
As an ancient city, lying off the east coast, Mytilene was initially confined to a small island just offshore that later was joined to Lesbos, creating a north and south harbor.…
Neos Panteleimonas
A coastal settlement on the foothills of Mount Olympos in Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, within the municipality of Dio-Olympos. The area is rich in archaeological heritage,…
Nichoria
Nichoria is a site in Messenia, on a ridgetop near modern Rizomylos, at the northwestern corner of the Messenian Gulf. During the Helladic period it was part of the Mycenaean…
Oinochori
Oinochori is a mountain settlement in the municipal unit of Gravia, Phocis, Greece, situated at approximately 870-900 meters elevation on the slopes of Mount Oiti. Archaeological…
Olympia, Greece
Olympia lies in the valley of the Alfeiós River in the western part of the Peloponnese, today around 18 km from the Gulf of Kyparissia in the Ionian Sea, but in antiquity perhaps…
Olynthus
Olynthus was an ancient Greek city in Chalcidice, Greece, situated on two flat-topped hills rising 30-40 metres above a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the…
Orchomenus, Arcadia
An ancient city of Arcadia in the Peloponnese, originating as a prehistoric settlement and becoming one of the most powerful cities in western Arcadia alongside Tegea and…
Orchomenus, Boeotia
A major Bronze Age center in Boeotia near the now-drained Lake Copais, traditionally linked to the legendary Minyans from Thessaly. The site was inhabited from the Neolithic…
Palaikastro
Palaikastro, on Crete's eastern coast, was one of the largest Minoan settlements, spanning over 50,000 square metres and occupied from Early Minoan II to Late Minoan IIIB. Notable…
Paos
Paos is an ancient Greek settlement (kome) in Achaea, northwestern Peloponnese, situated on a hill at approximately 745 metres elevation near modern Paleos Paos village. First…
Paradeisos Archaeological Site
Paradeisos is a Late Neolithic archaeological site in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Northern Greece, on a flat hilltop at the west bank of the Nestos River. The site lies near the…
Pavlopetri
Pavlopetri is an archaeologial site in Vatika Bay, off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece. Pavlopetri is unique in having an almost complete town plan, including…
Pellana
Pellana is an archaeological site north of Sparta in Laconia, Greece, with remains spanning from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine period. Archaeologist Theodore…
Petras
Petras is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan town on northeastern Crete. It includes a building which shows strong similarities with Minoan palaces and is sometimes…
Phaistos
Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete. It is notable…
Pheia, Elis
Pheia was an ancient port city of Elis on the western Peloponnese, situated on the isthmus of the Ichthys promontory at modern Katakolo. It served as a crucial harbour for the…
Phthiotic Thebes
Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes was a city and polis in ancient Thessaly, Greece; its site was north of the modern village of Mikrothives and its harbour was at Pyrasus. The…
Pigi Artemidos
Pigi Artemidos is a Bronze Age settlement. During the construction of a national road to Thessaloniki, Pigi Artemidos was discovered. The location was still in use in the…
Prassa
Prassa is a Minoan archaeological site on Crete, discovered accidentally in 1939. Excavations began that year but were interrupted until 1951. Two Middle Minoan houses were…
Prinias
Prinias (ancient Rizinia) is an archaeological site in Crete that has revealed a seventh-century BCE temple with striking similarities to ancient Egyptian architecture, including…
Priniatikos Pyrgos
Priniatikos Pyrgos is an archaeological site near the Istron River in the eastern Cretan regional unit of Lasithi. The site is on a coastal promontory. It appears to have been…
Prosymna
Prosymna was a town in ancient Argolis, in whose territory the celebrated Heraeum, or temple of Hera, stood. The place was inhabited since the Neolithic period. In 1878 Panagiotis…
Pseira
Pseira is an islet in the Gulf of Mirabello in northeastern Crete with the archaeological remains of Minoan and Mycenean civilisation. The island was explored in 1906–1907 by…
Pylos
Pylos is a town in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece, with origins dating back to the Neolithic period. It was a significant Mycenaean kingdom, home to the Palace of Nestor, named…
Pyrasus
The site of Pyrasus is within the limits of Nea Anchialos. The only excavation that took place on the hill of Magoula, the ancient acropolis, southeast of Nea Anchialos, shows…
Pythagoreion
The Pythagoreion is the archaeological site of the ancient city of Samos on the island of Samos, Greece, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 alongside the Heraion…
Rhamnous
Rhamnous, also Ramnous or Rhamnus, was an ancient Greek city in Attica situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait. Its ruins lie northwest of the modern town of Agia…
Rhodes - City
Rhodes is the principal city on the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese, Greece, with a population of approximately 56,000 (nearly 90,000 in the metropolitan area). The city has…
Roussolakko
Roussolakkos is the site of a major Minoan town near Palekastro in eastern Crete, occupied from Early Minoan IIA to Late Minoan IIIB (c. 2650-1200 BC). At its height around 1450…
Saliagos
Saliagos is an islet in the Greek island group of Cyclades. It is the first early farming site and one of the oldest settlements of the Cycladic culture. The settlement is dated…
Samicum
Samicum or Samikon was a town of Triphylia in ancient Elis, situated near the coast about half-way between the mouths of the Alpheius and the Neda, and a little north of the…
Sesklo
During the prehistory of Southeastern Europe, Sesklo was a significant settlement of Neolithic Greece, before the advent of the Bronze Age and millennia before the Mycenaean…
Skarkos
Skarkos is an early Bronze Age settlement on the island of Ios in Greece. Owing to its well preserved state, Skarkos is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Aegean…
Stilos - Archaeological Site
Stylos is an ancient Minoan settlement and cemetery near the modern village of Stylos in the Chania region of Crete, close to the important site of Aptera. Excavated by N. Platon…
Sycurium
Sycurium or Syk[o]yrion was a town of ancient Thessaly in the district of Pelasgiotis, at the foot of Mount Ossa. Livy writes that during the Third Macedonian War, Perseus of…
Tegea
Tegea (Ancient Greek: Τεγέα; Ionic Greek: Τεγέη) was one of the most ancient and powerful towns of ancient Arcadia. Its territory, called Tegeatis, was bounded by Cynuria and…
Temple of Aphrodite, Ancient Cassope
The Temple of Aphrodite at ancient Cassope (Kassope) in Epirus, Greece, is a peripteral hexastyle temple measuring 17.20 x 10.15 metres, located outside the city walls. Aphrodite…
Thebes, Greece
Thebes, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, lies in Boeotia, central Greece. A ruined 15th-century BCE Minoan-style palace at the Cadmea citadel featured…
Toumba
Toumba (Greek: Τούμπα) describes mounds created by settlements in northern Greece during the Bronze Age.
Tripiti - Archaeological Site
Tripiti (also Trypiti) is the archaeological site of an Early Minoan settlement in southern Crete, Greece, built on the rocky hill of Papouri, 135 meters above sea level near the…
Troullos
Troullos, also known as Trullos, is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on Crete. The Troullos site is the easternmost section of the ancient settlement at…
Tylissos
Tylissos was excavated 1909–1913 by Joseph Hadzidakis, 1953–1955 by Nicholas Platon and in 1971 by A. Kanta. The town was in use Early Minoan II to Late Minoan IIIA, and the…
Valtos Leptokaryas
At the site Valtos Leptokaryas settlement remains from different periods of the Bronze Age and Christianity were discovered. The archaeological site is located north of the…
Vasiliki, Lasithi
Vasiliki is an Early Minoan settlement on hill Kastelli near Ierapetra, eastern Crete, occupied from c. 2600 BC and flourishing due to its strategic position controlling the…
Vergina - Ancient Aigai
Vergina in northern Greece is the site of ancient Aigai, the first capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 as an exceptional testimony…
Vlochos Archaeological Site
Located at the northeast corner of the western Thessalian plain near Palamas, Greece, the Vlochos site is centered on the hill of Strongilovouni. A Greek-Swedish archaeological…
Vrokastro
Vrokastro was an ancient Minoan civilization settlement in the Lasithi regional unit of eastern Crete. It overlooks the Gulf of Mirabello. The site was a mountain citadel located…
Vryokastro
Vryokastro (Greek: Βρυόκαστρο) is an archaeological site in Kythnos, Greece. It is considered as the ancient capital of the island. It was inhabited from the 12th century BC until…
Xyniae
Xyniae or Xyniai or Xynia was an ancient city in Achaea Phthiotis, Ancient Thessaly, in Greece. The city was located on the western slopes of Mount Othrys, some 4 km southwest of…
Temple complex in Greece (40)
Acropolis of Rhodes
The Acropolis of Rhodes is the acropolis, or upper town, of ancient Rhodes dating from the 5th century BC and located 3 kilometers SW from the centre of the modern city. Situated…
Altar of Zeus Agoraios
Built in the 4th century BC, the Altar of Zeus Agoraios is a white marble altar in the Ancient Agora of Athens. Measuring 9m deep and 5.5m wide, it was among the first monuments…
Anakeion
The Anakeion or Anacaeum, also known as the Sanctuary of the Dioskouroi, was a temple in Athens. The name of the temple derives from the Greek Ἄνακες (an archaic form of ἄνακτες,…
Anemospilia
A Minoan temple on the northern slope of Mount Juktas, Crete, about 7 km from Knossos, excavated in 1979 by Yannis Sakellarakis. The building consists of three rectangular rooms…
Apollo Temple, Delphi
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi was the centerpiece of the Panhellenic Sanctuary at Delphi, a sacred precinct in central Greece dedicated to Apollo, the god of prophecy, music, and…
Asclepieion of Athens
The Asclepieion of Athens was an ancient Greek temple in Athens built to honour of the gods Asclepius and Hygieia, located west of the Theatre of Dionysos and east of the…
Brauroneion
The Brauroneion was the sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia on the Athenian Acropolis, located in the southwest corner of the Acropolis plateau, between the Chalkotheke and the…
Eleusinion
Eleusinion (City Eleusinion) was a sanctuary on the lower north slope of the Acropolis in Athens, dedicated to Demeter and Kore (Persephone). It served as the central hub of the…
Eleusis
Eleusis was an ancient Greek city 23 km west of Athens, renowned as the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries -- among the most sacred initiation rites in the ancient world, held…
Erechtheion
The Erechtheion or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple, on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens. The extant building is the successor of several temples…
Hekatompedon Temple
The Hekatompedon or Hekatompedos was an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens built from limestone in the Archaic period. The name of the temple, "Hekatompedon", was…
Heraion of Argos
The Heraion of Argos (Greek: Ἡραῖον Ἄργους) is an ancient sanctuary in the Argolid, Greece, dedicated to Hera, whose epithet "Argive Hera" appears in Homer's works. The site,…
Heraion of Perachora
The Heraion of Perachora is an ancient sanctuary of the goddess Hera located in a small cove at the end of the Perachora peninsula on the Corinthian Gulf. The site features a…
Heraion of Samos
The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, on the island of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city of Samos. It was located in the low, marshy…
Isthmia - Sanctuary
Isthmia is an ancient sanctuary of Poseidon on the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece, famed for hosting the Isthmian Games founded in 584 BC, one of the four Panhellenic Crown Games. The…
Older Parthenon
Built after 490 BC, the Older Parthenon was the first attempt to construct a sanctuary for Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis of Athens. It was erected on a massive limestone…
Old Temple of Athena
The Old Temple of Athena or the Archaios Neos was an archaic Greek limestone Doric temple on the Acropolis of Athens probably built in the second half of the sixth-century BCE,…
Parthenon
The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. The Parthenon was built in the 5th century BC in thanksgiving for the Greek…
Pyre of Heracles
The Pyre of Heracles consists of ruins of a Doric temple dating to the 3rd century BC, situated on Mount Oeta in Phocis, Greece. According to mythology, this is the site where the…
Samothrace Temple Complex
The Samothrace Temple Complex, known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, is one of the principal Pan-Hellenic religious sanctuaries, located on the island of Samothrace within the…
Sanctuary of Aphrodite Urania
The Sanctuary of Aphrodite Urania was located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens and dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite under her epithet Urania. The sanctuary is known…
Sanctuary of Artemis, Brauron
The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron is one of the most important ancient Greek religious sites for women, located on the eastern coast of Attica near the Aegean Sea. A nearby hill…
Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia, an Archaic site devoted in Classical times to Artemis, was one of the most important religious sites in the Greek city-state of Sparta, and…
Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus
The Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus was a walled open-air sanctuary dedicated to Zeus Polieus around 500 BC on the Acropolis of Athens, sited to the Erechtheion's east. Although no…
Southeast Temple of the Ancient Agora of Athens
The Southeast Temple is the modern name for an Ionic octastyle prostyle temple located in the southeast corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Architectural fragments from the…
Southwest Temple of the Ancient Agora of Athens
The Southwest Temple is the modern name for a tetrastyle prostyle Doric temple located in the southwest part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from the temple found…
Spartia Temple
The Spartia temple is an ancient Greek cult site excavated at the foot of the hill of Spartia, north of the village of Sesklo, in the Magnesia regional unit of Greece. An…
Temple of Apollo, Delphi
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi was the centerpiece of a Panhellenic sanctuary dedicated to Apollo, god of prophecy, music, and healing.
Temple of Apollo Epicurius
The Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, built 420-400 BC at 1,131 metres elevation on Mount Kotylion in the Peloponnese, is the earliest known temple to combine all three…
Temple of Apollo Zoster
The Temple of Apollo Zoster is an ancient Greek temple, the remains of which are located at Vouliagmeni in Athens, Greece. The temple was uncovered when children from the…
Temple of Athena Alea
The Temple of Athena Alea was a sanctuary at Tegea in Ancient Greece, dedicated to Athena under the epithet Athena Alea; a syncretization between the Olympian goddess Athena and…
Temple of Athena Lindia
The Temple of Athena Lindia was a sanctuary in Lindos in Rhodes, dedicated to the goddess Athena. It was a significant Pan-Hellenic shrine of Athena and arguably the regional…
Temple of Athena Nike
The Temple of Athena Nike, the smallest temple on the Acropolis of Athens, is dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike. Built around 420 BC, the temple is the earliest fully…
Temple of Hephaestus
The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (also "Hephesteum" or "Hephaesteum"; Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστεῖον, Greek: Ναός Ηφαίστου, and formerly called in error the Theseion or…
Temple of Poseidon, Tainaron
An ancient Greek sanctuary at the extreme tip of the Mani Peninsula, the southernmost point of mainland Greece, dedicated to Poseidon Asphaleios ("Poseidon of Safety"). The…
Temple of Roma and Augustus
The Temple of Roma and Augustus was a monopteral circular Ionic temple built on the Acropolis of Athens c. 19 BCE, likely coincident with Augustus' second visit to Athens. The…
Temple of Zeus, Olympia
The Temple of Zeus was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model…
The Acropolis of Ancient Thasos
Thermos, Aetolia
Thermos was an ancient Greek sanctuary in Aetolia, serving as the regular meeting place of the Aetolian League. Its focal point was the temple of Apollo Thermios, dating to…
Tholos of Delphi
The Tholos of Delphi is among the ancient structures of the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in Delphi. The circular temple, a tholos, shares the immediate site with other ancient…
Monument in Greece (33)
Athenian Treasury, Delphi
The Athenian Treasury at Delphi was constructed by the Athenians to house dedications and votive offerings made by their city and citizens to the sanctuary of Apollo. The entire…
Boeotian Treasury
The Treasury of the Boeotians was a small temple-like building dedicated in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi during the late Archaic period, datable to the early 5th century BC.…
Bull of the Corcyreans
The Bull of the Corcyreans was a bronze statue dedicated around 480 BC by the citizens of Corcyra (modern Corfu) at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, Greece. According to…
Choragic Monument of Thrasyllos
The Choragic Monument of Thrasyllos is a memorial building erected in 320–319 BCE on the artificial scarp of the south face of the Acropolis of Athens to commemorate the choregos,…
Cnidian Treasury
The Treasury of the Cnidians at Delphi was built c. 555-545 BC, before Cnidus fell to the Persians in 544 BC. The Ionic-order marble building measured 5.13 by 6.60 metres and…
Craterus' ex voto
The ex voto of Craterus at Delphi was a bronze sculptural group depicting a lion hunt involving Alexander the Great and his general Craterus, attributed to the renowned…
Echo Stoa
The Echo Stoa is located within the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia. It is part of an ancient archaeological site excavated and preserved by the German Archaeological Institute at…
Ex voto of the Arcadians, Delphi
A monumental votive offering at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, dedicated by the Arcadians, particularly the Tegeates, after their victorious campaign in Laconia alongside the…
Ex voto of the Attalids, Delphi
The Ex voto of the Attalids at Delphi consists of monuments erected by the Attalid kings of Pergamon in the sanctuary of Apollo during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. These…
Ex voto of the Lacaedemonians
The Ex voto of the Lacaedemonians was a monumental bronze sculptural group at Delphi, Greece, dedicated by the Spartans to commemorate their victory over Athens at the Battle of…
Ex voto of the Tarentines
A bronze sculptural offering dedicated at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi around 473 BC by the Spartan colony of Taras (modern Taranto, southern Italy) to commemorate their…
Ex voto(s) of the Argives, Delphi
Several votive monuments dedicated by the city of Argos at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. The most notable is a semicircular pedestal erected after 369 BC to celebrate Argos's…
Funerary Naiskos of Aristonautes
The Funerary Naiskos of Aristonautes is a monumental grave marker found near the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos cemetery of ancient Athens. Made of Pentelic marble and standing…
Funerary Stela of Demokleides
The Funerary Stela of Demokleides (NAMA 752) is a funerary monument on display at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Displayed as part of the museum's sculpture…
Lesche of the Knidians
The Lesche of the Knidians (or Cnidians) was a lesche, i.e. a club or meeting place, at the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Today, it has been mostly destroyed; the only surviving…
Monument of Aemilius Paullus
The Monument of Aemilius Paullus was erected in the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi shortly after 167 BCE in order to commemorate the Roman victory over King Perseus of Macedon at…
Monument of Prusias II
The Monument of Prusias II is a stele at Delphi's sanctuary of Apollo, one of the sanctuary's ex-voto offerings, constructed in honor of King Prusias II of Bithynia.
Mount Thourion
Mount Thourion or Thurium Mons was the name of a conical hill in Ancient Greece. A temple to the cult of the Muses may have been situated here. The location of the hill was…
Omphalos of Delphi
The Omphalos of Delphi is an ancient marble monument that was found at the archaeological site of Delphi. A version of the omphalos once used in the temple is held in Delphi…
Portico of the Aetolians
The Portico of the Aetolians, known also as the Western Portico, is one of the largest buildings of Delphi, situated outside of the sacred precinct of the sanctuary of Apollo. The…
Sicyonian Treasury
The Treasury of the Sicyonians is one of the buildings within the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. The treasury itself replaced two former buildings, namely the tholos and the…
South Stoa I, Athens
The South Stoa I of Athens was a two-aisled stoa located on the south side of the Agora, in Athens, Greece, between the Aiakeion and the Southeast Fountain House. It probably…
Stele of Aristion
The Stele of Aristion dates from around 510 BC. It was created by sculptor Aristokles out of Pentelic marble and shows traces of polychrome. It was found at Velanideza near…
Stele of Arniadas
The Stele of Arniadas is an Archaic-period funerary stele in Corfu, Greece, found on the tomb of Arniadas, a warrior. It was intended to mark his grave and honour his memory by…
Stoa Basileios
Stoa Basileios, meaning Royal Stoa, was a Doric stoa in the northwestern corner of the Athenian Agora, which was built in the 6th century BC, substantially altered in the 5th…
Stoa of Attalos
The Stoa of Attalos was a stoa in the Agora of Athens, Greece. It was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon, who ruled between 159 and 138 BC. The building was…
Stoa of Eumenes
The Stoa of Eumenes was constructed south of the Asklepieion staircase and the peripatos, on an artificial terrace of 9m x 13ms. To retain the pathway to the north an arched…
Stoa of the Athenians
Built 478-470 BC, the Stoa of the Athenians is a one-aisled Ionic portico in the Delphic Sanctuary, positioned south of the Temple of Apollo. Its northern wall is formed by the…
Stoa of Zeus
The Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios was a two-aisled stoa located in the northwest corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was built c. 425 BC–410 BC for religious purposes in…
Stoa Poikile
The Stoa Poikile or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was one of the most famous sites in ancient Athens,…
Theban Treasury, Delphi
The Treasury of the Thebans at Delphi was a Doric treasury built entirely of local limestone from the quarries of St. Elias near Chrisso. Located a few meters below the first turn…
Treasury of Cyrene
The Treasury of Cyrene (Treasury of the Cyreneans) was a building in the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. The Treasury of Cyrene was probably the last treasury to have been built…
Treasury of the Massaliots, Delphi
The treasury of the Massaliots was situated in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia. Within the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaea, to the west of the Athena temples and side to side with the…
Sanctuary in Greece (26)
Altar of the Chians
The Altar of the Chians was the main altar of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It was built after the reconstruction of the Temple in the 330s, replacing an older altar dated to…
Altar of the Twelve Gods
The Altar of the Twelve Gods (also called the Sanctuary of the Twelve Gods), was an important altar and sanctuary at Athens, located in the northwest corner of the Classical…
Amphiaraeion of Oropos
The Amphiareion of Oropos was a sanctuary dedicated to the hero Amphiaraos, situated in the hills 6 km southeast of the fortified port of Oropos, amidst a pine forest. Founded in…
Archaeological Park of Dion
The Archaeological Park of Dion is the most important archaeological site at Mount Olympus in Greece, located in Dion. In the area comprised by the Archaeological Park of Dion,…
Archaeological Site of Dodoni
Oldest oracle in Greece, located 22 km southwest of Ioannina in Epirus, where priests called the Selloi interpreted the rustling of a sacred oak tree to deliver the prophecies of…
Archaeological Site of Eleusis
The Archaeological Site of Eleusis in Greece contains the sanctuary where the Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated annually in honor of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. The…
Archaeological Site of Olympia
The Archaeological Site of Olympia in Greece was a major religious sanctuary dedicated to Zeus on the western Peloponnese. The ancient Olympic Games, first traditionally dated to…
Asklepion, Kos
The Asklepion of Kos is an ancient healing sanctuary dedicated to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine. Today, the ruins lie near modern Kos town, preserving fragments of what was…
Atsipades
Atsipades is an archaeological site of a Minoan peak sanctuary in western Crete. The peak has its own specific name, Atsipades Korakias. Atsipades Korakias is characterized by…
Bassae
Bassae is an archaeological site in Oichalia, a municipality in the northeastern part of Messenia. Bassae was the first Greek site to be inscribed on the World Heritage List, in…
Delphi
Delphi, on the southwestern slope of Mount Parnassus, was the most important oracle site in ancient Greece and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1987). The Greeks considered it…
Heroon at Nemea
A hero shrine within the Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea in the northwest Argolid, Greece, dedicated to the mythological infant Opheltes. The heroon is an earthen mound 100…
Kalapodi
Sanctuary in Phocis, Central Greece, identified as the Oracle of Apollo at Abae, which rivaled Delphi in fame. Excavations by the German Archaeological Institute revealed a…
Kalaureia
Kalaureia or Calauria or Kalavria is an island close to the coast of Troezen in the Peloponnesus of mainland Greece, part of the modern island-pair Poros. On Calauria a Doric…
Menelaion
The Menelaion is an archaeological site, about 5 km from modern Sparta in Laconia, Greece. In the 8th century BC, the site became a hero shrine dedicated to Menelaus and Helen of…
Minoan Modi
Modi (or Modhi) is a Minoan peak sanctuary located in eastern Crete, Greece. Archaeological excavations uncovered clay human and animal figurines, typical votive offerings left by…
Mount Juktas
Located a few kilometers from the palaces of Knossos and Fourni and the megaron at Vathypetro, Mount Juktas was the site of an important peak sanctuary in the Minoan world.…
Mount Lykaion
Mount Lykaion is a mountain in Arcadia. Lykaion has two peaks: Stefani to the north and St. Ilias to the south where the ancient altar of Zeus is located. Mount Lykaion was sacred…
Nekromanteion of Acheron
An ancient Greek Oracle of the Dead in Epirus, devoted to Hades and Persephone, where pilgrims came to communicate with deceased ancestors. Located where the Acheron,…
Nemea
Nemea was an ancient sanctuary in the northeastern Peloponnese, today in the regional unit of Corinthia, Greece. Formerly part of the territory of Cleonae in ancient Argolis, its…
Petsofas
Petsofas is an archaeological site in eastern Crete. The site consisted of a small enclosure, probably open to the air, in which thousands of clay figurines and burnt offerings…
Sanctuary of Asclepius, Epidaurus
The Sanctuary of Asclepius was a sanctuary in Epidaurus dedicated to Asclepius. Especially in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, it was the main holy site of Asclepius. The…
Sanctuary of Pandion
The Sanctuary of Pandion was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the Acropolis of Athens. It is known from ancient inscriptions and from the writings of the traveller Pausanias to have…
The Temple of Artemis
A Greek temple dedicated to a localised form of the goddess Artemis, located in Ephesus (near modern Selçuk, Turkey). The original structure was among the Seven Wonders of the…
Traostalos
Traostalos is the archaeological site of a Minoan peak sanctuary in eastern Crete. Traostalos was first excavated in 1963-1964 under Kostis Davaras. Davaras returned in 1978 to…
Ναός Σωτήρου Διός
Sanctuary of Zeus Soter erected c. 371 BC in the agora of Megalopolis, the Arcadian League capital founded after the Battle of Leuctra. The complex comprised a peristyle court (47…
Cave Structures in Greece (16)
Aglaureion
The Aglaureion, or the Sanctuary of Aglauros, was an ancient sanctuary located in the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. It was dedicated to Aglauros, a Greek mythological figure who…
Alepotrypa Cave
The Alepotrypa Cave is a Neolithic-period archaeological site on the Mani Peninsula of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. Used for burial and cult purposes, it is one of the…
Apidima Cave
Apidima Cave is a complex of five caves located on the western shore of Mani Peninsula in southern Greece. The scientific research programme at Apidima began in 1978 and is being…
Cave of Zeus, Naxos
The Cave of Zas, or Cave of Zeus, is an ancient Greek cave located on Mount Zas on the island of Naxos. The cave was occupied from the Late Neolithic to Early Cycladic III…
Cave Sanctuaries of the Acropolis of Athens
The Cave Sanctuaries of the Acropolis of Athens are the natural fissures in the rock of the Acropolis hill that were used as sites of worship for deities of the Panhellenic…
Eileithyia Cave
Eileithyia Cave, located one kilometre south of Amnisos on Crete, was a sacred cave dedicated to the goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia. The site was used from the Neolithic to the…
Franchthi Cave
Franchthi Cave is a major archaeological site overlooking Kiladha Bay in the Argolic Gulf, southeastern Greece. The site documents the full transition from Paleolithic…
Idaean Cave
A sacred cave sanctuary on the eastern slopes of Mount Ida (Psiloritis) in Crete, at 1,538 m altitude. In myth, Rhea hid the infant Zeus here, guarded by the Curetes. Excavations…
Kamares, Crete
Kamares is a village in south-central Crete, Greece, home to Kamares Cave, a Minoan sacred cave in the Psiloriti Range. The cave sits slightly offset from a mountain saddle,…
Phyle Cave
The Phyle Cave is a small cave on Mount Parnes near Fyli, a suburb of Athens in Attica, Greece. In ancient Greece it was the site of a sanctuary to Pan and the nymphs. It is also…
Psychro Cave
Psychro Cave is an ancient Minoan sacred cave on the Lasithi plateau in eastern Crete. It is traditionally associated with the Diktaean Cave, one of the legendary birthplaces of…
Skotino Cave
Skotino Cave is one of the largest caves in Crete. The cave lies high on a hill northwest of the village of Skotino, a few kilometers inland south of Gouves. It is also known as…
Stravomyti Cave
Stravomyti Cave is an ancient Minoan cave on Crete. Stravomyti Cave is 400 meters above sea level on Mt. Juktas' southwest slope. Stravomyti Cave first saw use during Neolithic…
The Prison of Socrates
The so-called Prison of Socrates consists of rooms carved into bedrock on the Hill of the Muses (Philopappos Hill) in Athens. The preserved structure contains three interconnected…
Trapeza, Crete
Trapeza, Crete is a Neolithic and Bronze Age sacred cave on the island of Crete in Greece. Some of the Bronze Age pottery finds at Trapeza are similar to specimens recovered at…
Vari Cave
The Vari Cave, also known as the Nympholyptos Cave, is a small cave northeast of Vari in Attica, Greece. In classical antiquity the cave was used as a shrine dedicated to Apollo,…
Tomb in Greece (13)
Archaeological Site Tomb Agamemnon
The Treasury of Atreus, also called the Tomb of Agamemnon, is a monumental tholos (beehive) tomb built at Mycenae. The entrance features a 120-ton monolithic lintel, topped by a…
Griffin Warrior Tomb
The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. The grave was discovered by a research team sponsored by…
Kamilari
Kamilari is a Minoan tholos tomb cemetery on Crete, 3 km west of Phaistos, discovered in 1959 by Italian archaeologist Doro Levi and dated to c. 2000 BC. The main tomb (Tholos A)…
Lycaean Tomb
The Lycaean Tomb is the only known Lycian-style tomb in Greece, located on the island of Kastellorizo (Megisti) in the Dodecanese. Dating to the 4th century BC, it features a…
Macedonian Tomb of Elafochori
The Macedonian tomb of Elafochori is an archeological monument near the settlement of Elafochori in the prefecture of Evros in Greece. The monument belongs to the Macedonian type…
Maleme
A Late Minoan tholos tomb has been discovered in the vicinity of Maleme. The tholos tomb, located on "Kafkala" hill, was accidentally revealed and then looted at the beginning of…
Nea Roumata Archaeological Site
Nea Roumata is an archaeological site of an ancient Minoan tomb near the village of Nea Roumata in Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. The site features a small Early Minoan I…
Phylaki
Phylaki is a modern village and the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan cemetery on Crete. The site, discovered in 1981, is a Late Minoan IIIA tholos tomb. At least 9 burials…
Tomb of Clytemnestra
The Tomb of Clytemnestra is a Mycenaean tholos type tomb built in c. 1250 BC. The Tomb of Clytemnestra with its imposing façade is together with the Treasury of Atreus the most…
Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles
The Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Hellenistic period in Mieza (modern Lefkadia, near Naousa, Imathia), noted for the quality of its painted…
Tomb of Macridy Bey
The Tomb of Macridy Bey, also known as the Tomb of Langadas, is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Classical or early Hellenistic period, on the site of ancient Lete, modern…
Tomb of the Palmettes
The Tomb of the Palmettes, sometimes known as the Rhomiopoulou Tomb, is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Hellenistic period in Mieza, Macedonia, Greece, noted for the quality of…
Yerokambos
An ancient Minoan cemetery on the south coast of central Crete, near the village of Lendas, south of the Asterousia mountains. Three tholos tombs have been excavated at the site:…
Cemetery in Greece (12)
Apesokari
Apesokari is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan cemetery. The rituals at Apesokari's tombs reveal toasting and banquets at burial, a popular Bronze Age tradition.…
Armeni - Archaeological Site
A remarkably preserved Late Minoan cemetery near Rethymno, Crete, containing 232 tombs dating to c. 1420-1190 BC. Finds include painted larnakes decorated with octopuses and…
Catacombs of Milos
The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of Milos in the Cyclades dating to the 1st-5th century AD. The catacombs are found near…
Chalandriani
Chalandriani is a major Early Bronze Age cemetery on the Cycladic island of Syros in Greece, a little way to the south of the fortified prehistoric settlement of Kastri. Most of…
Derveni, Thessaloniki
Derveni is a location in Mygdonia, Greece, between Efkarpia and Lagyna, approximately ten kilometers north-east of Thessaloniki. At Derveni an archeological site is located where…
Grave Circle A, Mycenae
Grave Circle A is a 16th-century BC royal cemetery situated to the south of the Lion Gate. This burial complex was initially constructed outside the walls of Mycenae and…
Grave Circle B, Mycenae
Grave Circle B in Mycenae is a 17th–16th century BCE royal cemetery situated outside the late Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece. Grave Circle B, with a diameter of 28…
Kerameikos
Kerameikos, also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and…
Koumasa
Koumasa is a Minoan archaeological site in southern Crete, best known for its large prepalatial cemetery. It is located between the villages of Loukia and Koumasa, at the southern…
Mycenaean Cemetery of Voudeni
The Mycenaean cemetery of Voudeni along with the Mycenaean settlement at the locality of Bortzi, comprise the Patras Mycenaean Park, located near the settlement of Voudeni of the…
Odigitria
Odigitria is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan religious complex, which includes two tholos tombs located near the modern Odigitria Monastery in the Asterousia…
Phourni
Phourni is the most important Minoan cemetery on Crete, located on a hill northwest of Archanes, in use from approximately 2400 to 1200 BC. The 6,600 sq m necropolis contains 26…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Greece (12)
Chryssolakkos
Chryssolakkos (c. 3300–1100 BC) is an ancient Minoan necropolis near Malia on Crete, Greece. Its name means "pit of gold," referencing the rich burial goods found at the site. The…
Kasta Tomb
The Kasta Tomb, also known as the Amphipolis Tomb, is the largest ancient tumulus ever discovered in Greece, and by comparison dwarfs that of Philip II of Macedon in Vergina. It…
Macedonian Tombs, Katerini
At works to recover clay, two Macedonian tombs were discovered north of Katerini. The graves are located approximately 3.7 km northeast of the center of Katerini between the…
Macedonian Tombs, Korinos
The Macedonian Tombs at Korinos are near the modern Greek village of Korinos, situated at the site of ancient Pydna. Tomb A, an important Macedonian tomb, was discovered in the…
Necropolises of Pydna
The Necropolises of Pydna contain Macedonian tombs situated around ancient Pydna along the historic road connecting Methone to Dion. The burial sites range from the Bronze Age to…
Pigi Athinas
Pigi Athinas (Source of Athena) is an archaeological site at the eastern foot of Mount Olympus near Platamonas, Greece, with evidence of human presence from the 7th millennium BC.…
Spathes
Among the first archaeological sites discovered in Mount Olympus was the excavation site Spathes. It is a necropolis from the Late Bronze Age. Many of the burial offerings were…
Tomb of Aegisthus
The Tomb of Aegisthus is a Mycenaean tholos tomb located near the citadel of Mycenae, Greece. It was constructed in the Late Helladic IIA period, from around 1510–1450 BC. The…
Tomb of Judgement, Lefkadia
The Tomb of Judgement, also known as the Great Tomb of Lefkadia, is an ancient Macedonian tomb of the Hellenistic period in Mieza (modern Lefkadia, near Naousa, Imathia), noted…
Tomb of Menecrates
The Tomb of Menecrates or Monument of Menecrates is an Archaic-period cenotaph in Corfu built around 600 BC in the ancient city of Korkyra. The tomb and the funerary sculpture of…
Treasury of Atreus
The Treasury of Atreus is the largest and most elaborate of the known Mycenaean tholos tombs. It follows the typical tripartite division of these tombs into a narrow rectangular…
Vaphio
Vaphio, Vafio or Vapheio is an ancient site in Laconia, Greece, on the right bank of the Eurotas, some 5 mi (8.0 km) south of Sparta. It is famous for its tholos or beehive tomb,…
Temple in Greece (12)
Apollo Temple, Portara
The Portara is the monumental marble gateway of an unfinished Temple of Apollo on the islet of Palatia in Naxos harbour, begun in 530 BC by the tyrant Lygdamis. Intended to rival…
Megarian Treasury, Delphi
The Megarian Treasury was a building situated within the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, to the north of the Siphnian Treasury along the Sacred Way. On its façade have been…
Megarian Treasury, Olympia
The Megarian Treasury at Olympia, was an ancient Greek building, located in the sanctuary of Olympia, which held votive offerings of the Greek city-state of Megara. The Megarian…
Metroon
The Metroon was an ancient Greek temple. Located on the west side of the Athenian Agora, it occupied the Old Bouleuterion, the former meeting place of the city council. After a…
Temple of Aphaia
The Temple of Aphaia is an Ancient Greek temple located within a sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Aphaia on the island of Aegina, which lies in the Saronic Gulf.…
Temple of Apollo Patroos
The Temple of Apollo Patroos is a small ruined temple on the west side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. The original temple was an apsidal structure, built in the mid-sixth century…
Temple of Ares
The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. The temple had a large altar to the east…
Temple of Athena Pronaia
The Temple of Athena Pronaia was a temple at the ancient site of Delphi, in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia. There were in fact three successive temples built at the site. The…
Temple of Hera, Olympia
The Temple of Hera, or Heraion, is an ancient Archaic Greek temple at Olympia, Greece, that was dedicated to Hera, queen of the Greek gods. It is the oldest temple at Olympia and…
Temple of Poseidon, Sounion
The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon. The temple of Poseidon at Sounion was constructed from 444 to 440 BCE.…
Temple of Sangri
The Temple of Sangri is a Late Archaic Greek temple on the Cycladic island of Naxos, located in the area of Gyroulas approximately 1.5 km south of Ano Sangri. The sanctuary was…
Tomb of Leonidas
The Tomb of Leonidas (Leonidaion) in Sparta, Greece, is the only surviving monument from the ancient Agora. The limestone edifice measures 12.5 x 8.30 m and dates to the late 5th…
Theatre in Greece (11)
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus is a theatre in the Greek city of Epidaurus, located on the southeast end of the sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Greek God of medicine,…
Ancient Theatre of Makyneia
A small 4th-3rd century BC theatre at the site of ancient Aitolian Makyneia, located at the Paliokastro site in western Greece. The theatre has a single cuneus with 14 tiers of…
Ancient Theatre of Megalopolis
Built c. 370 BC as part of the founding of Megalopolis, capital of the Arcadian League established to counter Sparta. With capacity of 20,000 spectators, it was among the largest…
Ancient Theatre of Philippi
Originally built by Philip II of Macedon around 356 BC at the foot of the acropolis of Philippi, the city he founded to control nearby gold mines. The theatre was substantially…
Ancient Theatre of Thassos
The Ancient Theatre of Thassos is located at the northeastern end of the ancient city, built into a natural cavity of the hill in the Limena area. The oldest construction phase…
Argos Theatre
The Argos Theatre was constructed in 320 BC and carved into the slopes of Larissa Hill in Argos, Greece. One of the largest Hellenistic theatres in Greece, it underwent renovation…
First Ancient Theatre, Larissa
The First Ancient Theatre of Larissa was built in the center of the ancient city of Larissa, during the reign of king Philip V of Macedon, towards the end of the 3rd century BC.…
Hellenistic Theatre of Dion
The Hellenistic Theatre of Dion is the largest structure in the Archaeological Park of Dion at the foot of Mount Olympus in northern Greece. Originally built in the late 5th…
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is a stone Greek theatre structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece. The building was completed in AD 161 and then…
Second Ancient Theatre, Larissa
The Second Ancient Theatre of Larissa is an ancient Greek theatre in the city of Larissa in Thessaly, Greece. The theatre was built in the second half of the 1st century BC, on…
Theatre of Dionysus
The Theatre of Dionysus is an ancient Greek theatre in Athens, built on the south slope of the Acropolis as part of the sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus. The first orchestra…
Residence/villa/farmhouse in Greece (10)
Achladia
Achladia is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan villa on eastern Crete. The ancient Minoan excavation site is 3 kilometers northeast of the Achladia village, south of…
Arrephorion
The Arrephorion or House of the Arrephoroi is a building conjectured to have been on the Acropolis of Athens based on a passage in Pausanias. The discovery of the foundations of a…
Chamaizi
Chamaizi is an ancient archaeological site in eastern Crete with the only known oval-shaped building of the Minoan period. Below this building is evidence of Early Minoan building…
House of the Tiles
The House of the Tiles is a monumental Early Bronze Age building (two stories, approximately 12 x 25 m) located at the archaeological site of Lerna in southern Greece. It is…
Kompoloi
In the plain of Leivithra in 1997 began the excavation work on the ancient winery Kompoloi. They lasted (intermittently) until October 2000. The building was erected in the middle…
Makry Gialos
Makry Gialos is a Late Minoan villa site on the southeast coast of Crete, near Ierapetra in the Lasithi prefecture. Excavated by Kostis Davaras from 1971 to 1977, the mansion…
Sklavokampos
Sklavokampos is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement in Crete, used during the Late Minoan period. Sklavokampos is southwest of Tylissos, at the road that…
Tria Platania
During the construction work on the railway line Athens-Thessaloniki, the remains of an ancient farmhouse were discovered at Tria Platania. Rescue excavations allowed a small part…
Vathypetro
Vathypetro is an archaeological site, four kilometres south of the town of Archanes on Crete. It contains some of the oldest wine presses in the world. Excavations by the Greek…
Villa of Herodes Atticus
Villa of Herodes Atticus is a Roman villa located on the outskirts of Doliana and near Astros in Arcadia, Greece. It was developed between the 1st and 5th centuries by the family…
Fortress/citadel in Greece (9)
Acrocorinth
With its secure water supply, Acrocorinth's fortress was repeatedly used as a last line of defense in southern Greece because it commanded the Isthmus of Corinth, repelling foes…
Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great…
Archaeological Site of Mycenae
Fortified citadel in the Argolid plain. Its Grave Circles yielded spectacular gold artifacts including the Mask of Agamemnon. The Treasury of Atreus stands nearby. Inscribed as a…
Fortifications of Rhodes
The fortifications of Rhodes are shaped like a defensive crescent around the medieval town, composed of a massive embankment wall encased in stone. They feature scarp, bastions,…
Frourio Hill
Frourio Hill is the ancient acropolis of Larissa, Greece, continuously inhabited since the city's earliest settlement. It served as the citadel in both antiquity and Byzantine…
Larisa, Argos
Larisa is the ancient and medieval acropolis of Argos, located on a high rocky hill, within the town's boundaries to the west. According to Strabo, it is named for a group of…
Mycenaean Acropolis of Gla
(1500-500 BC) Gla was a massive Mycenaean fortress in Boeotia, Greece, built on a limestone outcrop that jutted into Lake Kopais. The site covered more than ten times the area of…
Mycenaean Acropolis of Midea
One of the three main Mycenaean centers in the Argolid alongside Mycenae and Tiryns, situated on a 270-meter conical hill. Its massive cyclopean wall extends 450 meters in length,…
Tiryns
Tiryns is a Mycenaean archaeological site in Argolis in the Peloponnese. Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from before the beginning of the…
Other sites in Greece (53)
Acropolis Museum
The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found…
Agios Vasileios, Laconia
Agios Vasileios is the site of a Mycenaean palace, located 4 kilometers east of the village of Xirokambi in Laconia. It was west of the Eurotas River commanding the plain, some 10…
Altar of Athena Polias
The Altar of Athena Polias was a sacred structure on the Acropolis of Athens, situated between the Parthénon and the Érechthéion, near the altar of Zeus. Founded in 525 BCE by the…
Ancient Stadium of Nemea
The Ancient Stadium of Nemea sits in an upland valley of Korinthia, Greece. Here, ancient Greek athletes competed in the stadion at the pan-Hellenic Nemean Games, held every two…
Arcadian Gate
Arcadian Gate (4th c. BC) is a monumental structure at Ancient Messene in Greece. One of the city's two original gates, it served as the western entrance through the…
Archaeological Site of Pnyx
The Pnyx is a hill or hillside in central Athens. The Pnyx is located less than 1 kilometre west of the Acropolis and about 2 km south-west of the Syntagma Square in the centre of…
Arkadiko Bridge
The Arkadiko Bridge or Kazarma Bridge is a Mycenaean bridge near the modern road from Tiryns to Epidauros in Argolis on the Peloponnese, Greece. The stone crossing, which is dated…
Bema
The Bema at the Pnyx in Athens is an ancient stone speakers' platform that served as the focal point of Athenian democracy from the 6th century BC onward. From this elevated…
Beulé Gate
The Beulé Gate is a fortified gate, constructed in the Roman period, leading to the Propylaia of the Acropolis of Athens. It was constructed almost entirely from repurposed…
Bull-Leaping Fresco
The Bull-Leaping Fresco is the most completely restored of several stucco panels originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the Minoan palace at Knossos in…
Chalkotheke
The Chalkotheke (Greek for "bronze store") was a structure on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece. Its name and function are only known from 4th century BC inscriptions. One decree…
Delphi Archaeological Museum
Founded in 1903, Delphi Archaeological Museum is one of Greece's principal museums and among its most visited. Operated by the Greek Ministry of Culture, it houses artifacts…
Dendra
Dendra is a prehistoric archaeological site situated outside the village with the same name belonging to the municipality of Midea in the Argolid, Greece. The site of Dendra is…
Diolkos
The Diolkos was a paved stone trackway across the Isthmus of Corinth, built around 600 BC under the tyrant Periander, enabling ships to be hauled overland between the Saronic and…
Dipylon
The Dipylon (Greek: Δίπυλον, "Two-Gated") was the main gate in the city wall of Classical Athens. Located in the modern suburb of Kerameikos, it led to the namesake ancient…
Eleutherna Bridge
The Eleutherna Bridge is an ancient Greek corbel arch bridge near the Cretan town of Eleutherna, Greece. The well-preserved structure has a single span of 3.95 m, which is quite…
Fortifications of Chania
The fortifications of Chania are a series of defensive walls and other fortifications which surround the city of Chania in Crete. The inner city walls were first built in…
Funerary Naiskos of Demetria and Pamphile
The Funerary naiskos of Demetria and Pamphile is an ancient Greek tomb memorial in honour of two deceased women named Demetria and Pamphile, erected in classical Athens around 320…
Galatas Palace
The Galatas Palace is a Minoan archaeological site in Heraklion, Crete, Greece about 30 kilometers southeast of the city of Heraklion discovered in the early 1990s. Built on an…
Gate of Athena Archegetis
The Gate of Athena Archegetis is a monumental Roman-era gateway on the west side of the Roman Agora in Athens, Greece. Constructed in 11 BC through donations by Julius Caesar and…
Gate of Zeus and Hera
(5th c. BC) Ancient city gate complex in Thasos, North Aegean Islands, featuring massive limestone pillars and fortified walls. The site demonstrates architectural influences from…
Grave Stelai from Grave Circle A, Mycenae
The Grave Stelai from Grave Circle A at Mycenae are a collection of at least 21 upright, rectangular limestone stelae that marked shaft grave burials from 1600-1500 BCE. Twelve…
Grave Stele of Dexileos
The Grave Stele of Dexileos is a marble funerary monument commemorating an Athenian cavalryman who died fighting Sparta in the Corinthian War of 394 BC. Carved from expensive…
Gymnasium, Delphi
The Gymnasium at Delphi is a building complex of the 4th century BC at Delphi, Greece, which comprised the xystus and the palaestra, along with its auxiliary buildings such as the…
Hagia Photia
Hagia Photia is an archaeological site of a fortified ancient Minoan building on eastern Crete. The building at Hagia Photia has 37 rooms that open onto a central court, but which…
Halos, Delphi
The Halos was a round open space close to the temple of Apollo in Delphi, where ancient rituals were being performed. Between the Bouleuterion and Sibyl's Rock in the sanctuary of…
Klaraki
Klaraki κλαράκι is a hill mentioned as an archeological excavation site in Laconia, Sparta. There are traces of a fort, tower and a city wall. Roof tiles were also found during…
Kouloura
Kouloures are circular subsurface pits with stone walls found at Minoan palaces in Crete, including Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia. Arthur Evans discovered three at Knossos in 1903,…
La Parisienne - Fresco
La Parisienne is a celebrated Minoan fresco fragment dating to c. 1400-1350 BC, part of the larger Camp Stool Fresco from the palace of Knossos. The figure depicts a woman in…
Lakkos
Lakkos is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan settlement on Crete, located just south of Archanes.
Lartos, Rhodes
Lartos was an ancient village on the southeast coast of Rhodes. The site is notable for a major marble formation known as lithos lartios, a distinctive gray-blue stone. This stone…
Louloudies
An early Byzantine fortified episcopal complex in Pieria, northern Greece, built in the last quarter of the 5th century on the road between Thessaloniki and Larissa. The 80 x 90 m…
Makra Stoa
The Makra Stoa was built during the time of Pericles. It was also known as the Alphitopolis Stoa, from the Greek word alphita (barley flour). The Stoa was a long building which…
Minoan Palace of Knossos
Knossos is a Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete that served as a major centre of the Minoan civilization. It is famously associated with the Greek myth of Theseus and the…
Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai, Vergina
The Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai is located 75 km west of Thessaloniki, Greece, centered around the royal tombs built by the ancient Kingdom of Macedon at Aigai. The…
Nemean Baths
The Nemean baths are an athletic bathing house at the Panhellenic sanctuary of Nemea in the Argolis. The baths are located in the southernmost part of the Hellenistic complex.…
Odysseus Palace
Archaeological complex on Ithaca believed to be the palace of Homer's Odysseus.
Palaestra at Delphi
The palaestra at Delphi is part of a gymnasium at the sanctuary. It is the oldest existing gymnasium from the Greek world, dating to the second half of the fourth century B.C. It…
Prince of the Lilies
The Prince of the Lilies is a celebrated Minoan relief fresco excavated by Sir Arthur Evans from the palace of Knossos on Crete, dated to c. 1550 BC. The life-size figure wears a…
Pyramid of Hellenikon
At the southeastern edge of the plain of Argos, near the springs of river Erasinos and on the main arterial road which during antiquity led from Argos to Tegea and the rest of…
Rhodes Footbridge
The Rhodes Footbridge is an ancient Greek arch bridge in the city of Rhodes, Greece. Dating to the 4th century BC or early Hellenistic period, the modest structure represents the…
Siphnian Treasury
The Siphnian Treasury was a building at the Ancient Greek cult center of Delphi, erected to host the offerings of the polis, or city-state, of Siphnos. It was one of many…
Square Peristyle
The Square Peristyle is the modern name for a structure on the east side of the Ancient Agora of Athens, which was among the largest peristyles built in Classical Greece.…
Stadium at Nemea
The Stadium at Nemea sits on the ancient site of Nemea in the modern day region of Corinthia. Here, ancient Greek athletes participated in the stadion only meters away from the…
Stadium at Olympia
The Stadium at Olympia is an ancient stadium at the archaeological site of Olympia, Greece, located to the east of the sanctuary of Zeus. It was the location of many of the…
Stadium of Delphi
The Stadium of Delphi lies on the highest spot of the Archaeological Site of Delphi. It overlooks the sanctuary of Apollo and has a view to the Delphic landscape. It was built…
The Ancient Tower of Thimonia
The Ancient Tower of Thimonia is a structure located on the Greek island of Thassos, dating from approximately 650 to 480 BC. The site remains largely unstudied — no formal…
Themistoclean Wall
The Themistoclean Wall, named after the Athenian statesman Themistocles, was built in Athens, Greece during the 5th century BC as a result of the Persian Wars and in the hopes of…
Throne Room, Knossos
The Throne Room was a chamber built for ceremonial purposes during the 15th century BC inside the palatial complex of Knossos, Crete. It is found at the heart of the Bronze Age…
Treasury of the Acanthians
The Treasury of the Acanthians at Delphi was built by the citizens of Acanthos on the Chalcidice peninsula in commemoration of their joint victory with the Lacedaemonians against…
Western Walls of Thessalonica
The Walls of Thessalonica stretch approximately 4 km and formed the main defensive perimeter of the city. The walls date from the early Byzantine period, ca. 390, and incorporate…
Zakros
Zakros is a Minoan archaeological site on the eastern coast of Crete in Lasithi. It is regarded as one of the six Minoan palaces, and its protected harbor and strategic location…
Zominthos
Zominthos is a small plateau in the northern foothills of Mount Ida (Psiloritis), on the island of Crete. Zominthos is roughly 7.5 kilometers west of the village of Anogia, on the…
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