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Ancient Plataea
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Ancient Plataea submitted by Antonios on 16th Jun 2008. Site in Attica/Central Greece: Ancient Tower at Plataea.
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Log Text: The site is generally covered in unmowed grasses which makes for some small difficulty walking with uneven ground and loose stones underfoot. There is a very obvious oval on high ground (the acropolis?) with a wall, much broken, on it southern border. At the north border, you overlook the valley where the famous battle against the Persians took place At this northern point someone has set a modern column and a small metal shrine (which is empty).
The much better defined wall of larger, more intact stoves, on a NW - SE line, south of the oval described above. It crosses the main road east of the modern town, and is marked there with the typical "Archaeological Site" brown and yellow sign. This wall is very large and shows several towers in the fortification. I'm uncertain if this separate wall dates from the 5th Century BC, or is a later addition, perhaps when Phillip of Macedon is credited with refounding the previously destroyed city.
Tomb of Philip II
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Log Text: The Great Mound was apparently an overgrown but noted site into modern times when excavated formally in the 1970's. Now the multiple tombs and graves are displayed in this museum setting, with the beautiful finds along side the tombs. The lighting is very dim at first and especially when they first open each day, the site is very crowded, but in 2017, the site appears to be open into the early evening and the crowds die down by mid afternoon.
Sesklo
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sesklo submitted by Antonios on 14th Jun 2008. Sesklo
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New Acropolis Museum
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
New Acropolis Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Aug 2006. The top floor, is designed to take the Elgin marbles, should they ever be returned by the British Museum.
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Bassae Temple of Apollo
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bassae Temple of Apollo submitted by Bjorn on 29th May 2007. Under wraps during restoration works.
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Delphi Temple
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Delphi Temple submitted by davidmorgan on 15th May 2007. The Temple of Apollo.
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Tholos Of Aegistus
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tholos of Aegistus submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. Schliemann took some liberties when naming the Mycenaean tombs and named them after Homeric characters. This tomb, however dates to about 1500 BCE, roughly 300 years before the Trojan War.
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Tholos Of Clytaemnestra
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Tholos of Clytaemnestra submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Aug 2006. fanciful name for a Tholos built about 1220 BCE, well before the Trojan war. This Tholos was found in the early 19th Century and robbed by a Turkish official before Greek independence. At the time the perfectly corbelled roof was damaged, but this has been repaired in 1951 with the original blocks . The Dromos is 37 Meters long and 6 Meters wide while the tomb has a diameter of 13.5 Meters and an original height of 13 meters.
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Treasury of Atreus
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Treasury of Atreus submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Aug 2006. Fanciful name give to a Tholos in use around 1250 BCE, long before the Trojan War. This is one of the few accessible tholos that is completely intact. 36 Meter Dromos.
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Temple of Hephaestos
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Temple of Hephaestos submitted by AlexHunger on 22nd Aug 2006. Classic 5th century temple also known as the Theseon, after Theseus, since the midle ages when the pagan gods were forgotten. It is suposed to be the temple in the best condition in Greece, only rivaled by those in Sicilly.
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Tiryns.
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tiryns. submitted by AlexHunger on 24th Aug 2006. Mycanaen fortress. Former gate.
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Mycenae.
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mycenae. submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Aug 2006. Mycenaean Lions Gate from the front. Achaean hillfort from about 1500 to 1100 BCE and probable starting point of Homer's Iliad. There are numerous tholos tombs in the area.
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Theatre of Dionysus
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Theatre of Dionysus submitted by AlexHunger on 20th Aug 2006. Ancient theatre just below the Acropolis in Athens.
There are neolithic caves in the cliff-side just above.
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Gortyna
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
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Mieza
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jul 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Mieza submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Ruins of theatre from 2nd century BC in Mieza (photo taken on May 2003).
Site in Northern Greece and Macedonia Greece
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Log Text: The only part of the ancient city one can easily visit today is the Hellenistic theater. There are apparently the foundations of a villa near the theater, but the site itself seems to be grown over. The city site itself is visible as a tree and brush covered high ground, but that portion is not accessible.
Outside the city one can visit the "School of Aristotle" and several tombs.
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Temple of Olympian Zeus submitted by AlexHunger on 21st Aug 2006. very large Zeus temple in downtown Athens.
Under consruction from 600 BCE to 130 CE. Largely quarried during middle ages.
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Olympia.
Date Added: 5th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Greece (Peloponnese Peninsula)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Olympia. submitted by Andy B on 21st Feb 2013. Temple of Zeus conserved and partially reconstructed using the original remains
Photo: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
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Thebes Museum
Date Added: 2nd Jul 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Greece (Central Greece)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Thebes Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 23rd Aug 2006. The Museum in Thebes looked like a mediaval tower built from antique blocks and is recommended by the Michelin Guide for Greece. It is however still being renovated at this time.
Thebes is the legendary city of Cadmus and Oedipus, though only few antique monuments can be found.
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Log Text: A fine modern regional museum, covering Thebes and major sites in Boeotia.
Tennessee State Museum
Trip No.3 Entry No.1 Date Added: 18th Jun 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Tennessee State Museum submitted by bat400 on 11th Sep 2007. Tennessee State Museum. Mississippian era effigy jar, described as a "monster". I'm unaware of 2D depictions of such beasts in what's known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex art styles.
Photo by bat400 July 2006.
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Log Text: The section on "the First Tennesseans" takes up only a portion of this downtown city museum. The bulk of the artifacts on display are from the Vanderbilt University collection of Gates Thurston (1835-1912.)
Pella (Greece)
Date Added: 17th Jun 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Greece (Northern Greece)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pella (Greece) submitted by davidmorgan on 3rd Dec 2006. Not a lot to see here, the mosaics in the museum are good (if they're not on tour).
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Log Text: The main fully excavated and stabilized portions of the city are substantial, but one could wander over all the open areas and sporadic marked tombs outside the city for days. The site of the palace lies uphill from the new museum, and is not open to the public.
The new museum (opened in 2009) is amazing, with very good signage in Greek and English.