Thessaloniki
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From Greek Reporter (I’m not sure this is news; I could have sworn we’d heard about this before): Local residents of Thessaloniki in northern Greece are outraged by a decision to build an apartment block on top of a recently discovered ancient Greek temple in the heart of the city. The temple of goddess Aphrodite,…
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Another one found during subway construction … a very brief item from A.P. via PhysOrg: Subway work in Greece unearths ancient gold wreath
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Latest discovery coming as a result of metro construction in Thessaloniki is a Roman road on top of the original Greek one … here’s the salient bits from AP via NPR: Archaeologists in Greece’s second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city’s main travel…
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