Thessaloniki Metro construction reveals unimaginable treasures

There is even a paved road with colonnades and a line of Byzantine period shops and workshops

The construction of local metro facilities in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki have uncovered a massive stash of thousands of archaeological treasures from different periods of Thessaloniki’s history. This booty includes a decumanus (an east-west oriented road, one of the primary highways of the time), along with a Byzantine avenue.

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Thessaloniki’s tryst with momentous Greek & Roman Heritage

There are architectural remains of many 15th to 17th century buildings built on top of the remains of Hellenistic and Roman buildings – a  nymphaeum, a marble paved square, a bathhouse heated by an underfloor hypocaust system and a large mosaic with intricate geometric patterns. There is even a paved  road with colonnades and a line of Byzantine period shops and workshops. Stunning images of the same have been released by  Attiko Metro SA .

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