Kerameikos Archaeological Site
Ancient cemetery and potters' quarter along the Sacred Way, with tombs spanning three thousand years.
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This guide to the Kerameikos Archaeological Site in Athens starts with a 1994 metro dig that broke into a mass grave: skeletons thrown into a pit in five disordered layers, matching the chaos the historian Thucydides described when panic overwhelmed Athens during a plague around 430 BC. It follows what scientists found among the bones, including an eleven-year-old girl with no name and no marker, and what DNA testing on her teeth revealed about what killed so many buried here. Stand near the pit and picture the strangers who were carried down and dropped there together.
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