The ancient cemetery of Kerameikós, centre of Athens

Posted by thestoicnutcracker@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 9 comments

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jaunmilijej@reddit

I am so damn thankful to live in this city

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peamasii@reddit

Visited there a few years back and it's pretty cool looking. Also the park around it is kind of a hangout place for young locals.

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Not sure about kept. For the most part you just have some foundations still left. This is not to simple erosion or natural disasters over time, but because local people tended to essentially use the ruins as sources of building materials.

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PhysicalMacaron2614@reddit

I always wondered how these ruins were kept like this since ancient times to today during foreign occupation and capitalist development of greece

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Roufianos255@reddit

Oh man, stuff like this fascinates me. Even artefacts, how did the Venus de Milo come to be buried. I also have a weird obsession with The Titanic since so much of it is frozen in time down there.

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thestoicnutcracker@reddit (OP)

Well, ever since Greeks got a state of their own, we got to maintain all of the most important, and not only, ancient monuments. The temple of Hephaestus in Thisseion a bit to the southeast of Kerameikós, is a remarkable example of how restoration maintained an already well kept monument.

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

It's very nice. There should be famous ancient ceramic workshops in the vicinity; do they still stand?