BY THE ARCHAEOLOGIST EDITOR GROUP

The discovery was made during work on the undergrounding of Poseidon Avenue at The Ellinikon, Europe’s greatest urban regeneration project, in the municipality of Hellinikon-Argyroupoli in southeastern Athens, Greece.

As seen in the aerial video by Zisimos Zizos, umbrellas have been set up at the site to protect the archaeologists from the sun.

The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, as well as the leading company in the real estate development industry in Greece, Lamda Development, have not yet made any announcements.

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What is the Ellinikon Park?

On the Athenian Riviera, there is a multifaceted development called The Ellinikon.

The Ellinikon will establish new standards for integrated, sustainable living, iconic placemaking, smart infrastructure, and a wide range of economic opportunities, from tourism to cutting-edge commercial buildings to ground-breaking destination retail.

Many villages will house thousands of people, backed by universal access to basic amenities like healthcare and education.

All of them are connected by Ellinikon Park, one of the biggest public coastal parks in the entire globe.

other sites of Archaeological interest in the area

The ancient (or large) farmhouse of Vari, of which the foundations have been preserved, is located in Ymittos. The rare building was inhabited in the 4th century BC by farmers. Its purpose was to supervise the cultivation of the region. For this reason, it had a tower. Today, one finds ancient tiles scattered in the area, part of the paved floor, and the foundations of the premises.

Also found on a hill are the foundations of another corresponding building (a small farmhouse), about which we currently do not know any further information. Finally, near the first building, there are some marks on a rock. Perhaps it is one of the well-known petroglyphs for indicating the borders or orientation of the municipalities of antiquity, as observed on neighboring hills and in Eastern Attica in general, a method applied by the rural populations from 350 BC. on flat cliffs.

The historic settlement of Euonymeia, also known by the medieval name Trachones and the modern slang moniker Ano Kalamaki, is today a residential neighborhood in the suburb of Alimos in the southern portion of the Greek city-state of Athens. The region is a portion of the southern Athenian plain that is located inland and lies between Mount Hymettus' foothills and Athens' southernmost coastal region along the Saronic Gulf. Hills made of limestone dot the landscape, and streams flow from Hymettus to the ocean.

With archeological sites demonstrating continuous growth from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, the region exhibits some of the earliest urban communities in Europe. Early Helladic walls, Mycenaean-era workshops and necropolises, a classical-era amphitheater, and Paleochristian and Byzantine temples are a few of the significant archeological discoveries. Two kraters on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City are among the earliest and best-preserved examples of Athenian Geometric pottery that have been traced to the Trachones workshop.

From the traveler of the 2nd B.C. century, Pausanias, we knew of the existence of the sanctuary in Mesogaea. It was dedicated to Obrian Zeus and Proopsius Apollo. Because the words Ombrios and Proopsios today sound strange and are probably unknown mainly to young people, we consider it useful for the continuation to quote their interpretation.

According to the great archaeologist Olga Kakavoiannis, the Sanctuary of Ombrius Zeus and Proopsios Apollo, the most important excavated monument belonging to the ancient Municipality of Sfittos, is located at the Prophet Ilias Ymittos in Koropi.