Ancient sites in Greece

Discover 11 ancient sites in Greece, including Ancient Marble Thrones, Arkadiko Bridge and Colossal Kouros of Apollonas, and more. Each has its story, photos, location and games to test what you learned.

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Ancient Marble ThronesFive marble seats of honor ring the orchestra of a small theater at the Amphiareion, a healing sanctuary north of Athens.
Arkadiko BridgeRough limestone boulders over a stream near Epidaurus: a Mycenaean road bridge that people still cross, some 3,000 years on.
Colossal Kouros of ApollonasA bearded marble giant about 10.5 meters long, still lying in the Naxos quarry where Archaic sculptors left it.
Heraion of ArgosTerraced ruins of the Argolid's great sanctuary of Hera, where a gold-and-ivory goddess by Polykleitos once sat enthroned.
Mycenae Archaeological SiteA walled Bronze Age citadel above the Argive plain, still entered through a gate carved with two lions around 1250 BCE.
Petralona CaveA limestone cave near Thessaloniki where villagers found one of Europe's most complete archaic human skulls in 1960.
Petrogriphia BridgeA small Mycenaean bridge of unmortared boulders near Arkadiko, still carrying a track some 3,200 years after it was built.
Pyramid of HellenikonSloping limestone walls near Argos, dated to the 4th century BCE from the pottery and to about 2700 BCE from the stone itself.
Temple of Apollo at DelphiThe ruined temple below Mount Parnassus where the Pythia, Apollo's priestess, answered the questions of kings and cities.
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at BassaeA grey limestone temple of Apollo at 1,131 meters in the Arcadian mountains, home of the oldest known Corinthian capital.
Treasury of AtreusA Bronze Age tomb at Mycenae whose corbelled stone dome stayed the largest in the world for more than a thousand years.

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