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 Peloponnese to mainland Greece. Its Archaic Temple of Apollo (c. 540 BC) is one of the few standing Archaic Greek temples, with seven monolithic columns still upright. Destroyed by Roman consul Lucius Mummius in 146 BC, then refounded as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Excavated continuously by the American School of Classical Studies since 1896.