The Port of Athens was once an island
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Piraeus, the main port of Athens, was an island from 4 800 – 3 400 BC, in other words 4 500 years before the Parthenon was built on the Acropolis. This discovery was made by a French-Greek team who studied and dated sediments collected in the Piraeus area.