There are many amazing archaeological sites in Attica, home to the capital of Greece, Athens, that remain relatively unknown, even to Greeks.

Contrary to popular belief, and the amount of gold and riches found inside, King Tutankhamun’s tomb was indeed robbed twice, shortly after it was built. There is only one tomb so far that remained ...

The Verde Valley has a long history of mineral exploration and mining dating back over 1,000 years ago to the Indigenous people affiliated with the ancient Tuzigoot pueblo, located 7 miles ...

The municipality of Kea has rejected the environmental impact study for a planned luxury resort on the Greek island's western ...

Fringed by the Aleppo pines of Sounio National Park – where the remnants of classical kilns and cisterns lie in the shade of ...

Originating in Ancient Greece in the sixth century BCE ... and entered circulation following the discovery of the vast silver mines at Laurion in Attica. Minted to the Attic standard of 4.3 ...

Though mining in ancient Egypt dates back as far as 1500 ... They also resemble other shackles discovered in a Greek silver mine in the 1870s. Among other evidence, the resemblance suggests ...

Remarkably similar restraints were uncovered at the ancient Greek silver mines of Laurion. This suggests that Greek engineers likely introduced their mining technology — and possibly forced ...

Similar shackles have been found in ancient silver mines at Laurion, Greece. After Alexander’s conquest, Hellenistic engineers travelled to Egypt to open gold mines and might have imported not ...

They were found near ancient tools and fragments of pottery and provided ... In fact, they bear fascinating similarities to shackles found in Greek silver mines, suggesting there may have been some ...

The shackles are similar to those found in Laurion, an ancient silver mine in southern Attica, Greece, where slave labor was employed under comparable conditions. The use of shackles suggests that ...

Ancient Greeks made their coins by extracting silver from lead-rich ore. Greece’s mining and smelting operations ended up seriously polluting Earth’s atmosphere, as modern scientists have ...