Hello everyone! Welcome to my brand-new blog. This certain blog has been created for my Social Media class in college, and will be focusing on Archaeology in the media.
It is known that in Thessaloniki the subway constructions have not yet finished. The digging and constructing have been going on for many years, yet the work is still in progress. We read in greekreporter.com
that in Thessaloniki, an astonishing 28,000 items from the city's past were gathered thanks to the construction of the subway. The marble-paved Roman road, with a length of 82.50 metres and a width of 4 metres, with a square, is the most important discovery of the past year. It is located at Agia Sofia subway station, at the site of one of the 26 small towns around the Thermaikos Gulf which, in 315 BC, were united by King Cassander and created Thessaloniki.
The marble-paved road was unearthed during excavations for Thessaloniki's new subway system, which is due to be completed in four years. The road in the northern port city will be raised to be put on permanent display when the metro opens in 2016.
"We have found roads on top of each other, revealing the city's history over the centuries," said Tzanakouli, an archaeologist working on the project. She told The Associated Press the Roman road was about 1,800 years old, while remains of an older road built by the ancient Greeks 500 years earlier were found underneath it.
Tzanakouli said "The ancient road, and side roads perpendicular to it appear to closely follow modern roads in the city today."
This certain incident was published in many newspapers and websites, however, it was 'buried' in the historical / cultural or even 'life' sections of a website, and of course never made it as a front page. This made it difficult for the readers to find it, unless they manually searched for keywords, or browsed the aforementioned sections to the last entries.
Article Found in:Countless Treasures Found in Excavations
It is known that in Thessaloniki the subway constructions have not yet finished. The digging and constructing have been going on for many years, yet the work is still in progress. We read in greekreporter.com
that in Thessaloniki, an astonishing 28,000 items from the city's past were gathered thanks to the construction of the subway. The marble-paved Roman road, with a length of 82.50 metres and a width of 4 metres, with a square, is the most important discovery of the past year. It is located at Agia Sofia subway station, at the site of one of the 26 small towns around the Thermaikos Gulf which, in 315 BC, were united by King Cassander and created Thessaloniki.
The marble-paved road was unearthed during excavations for Thessaloniki's new subway system, which is due to be completed in four years. The road in the northern port city will be raised to be put on permanent display when the metro opens in 2016.
"We have found roads on top of each other, revealing the city's history over the centuries," said Tzanakouli, an archaeologist working on the project. She told The Associated Press the Roman road was about 1,800 years old, while remains of an older road built by the ancient Greeks 500 years earlier were found underneath it.
Tzanakouli said "The ancient road, and side roads perpendicular to it appear to closely follow modern roads in the city today."
This certain incident was published in many newspapers and websites, however, it was 'buried' in the historical / cultural or even 'life' sections of a website, and of course never made it as a front page. This made it difficult for the readers to find it, unless they manually searched for keywords, or browsed the aforementioned sections to the last entries.
Article Found in:Countless Treasures Found in Excavations
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