8 legends, 2 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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AkrotiriLegend A Bronze Age town on Santorini buried by the Theran eruption in the sixteenth century BCE, radiocarbon most probably between 1620 and 1530, and preserved by the ash the way Vesuvius preserved Pompeii: frescoes, pottery,... Open it on the map · Read the story
KnossosLegend Fourteen thousand square metres of palace on a hill outside Heraklion, occupied from around 7000 BC, first built as a palace about 1900 BC, rebuilt after a destruction around 1700 and finally burned about 1350 BC. It runs off a... Open it on the map · Read the story
Madan, the Rhodope mineralsGem & mineral ground The lead-zinc mines of the Madan district in Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountains produce some of the most beautiful sulphide specimens in the world: brilliant galena cubes, sphalerite, and quartz combinations that fill museum cases... Open it on the map
MeteoraLegend Sandstone and conglomerate pillars standing out of the Thessalian plain, laid down as a river delta and pushed up about 60 million years ago, then split along vertical faults and weathered into towers. From the fourteenth... Open it on the map · Read the story
Mount Pentelicus marbleGem & mineral ground The Parthenon is made of this. The quarries on Mount Pentelicus north of Athens gave the flawless white, faintly golden marble that built the Acropolis and the great sculpture of classical Greece, cut and hauled down the mountain... Open it on the map
MycenaeLegend A citadel on a hill 274 metres up commanding the Argive plain, and the centre of the civilisation that gave the Greek Bronze Age its name. At its height around 1350 BC something like 30,000 people lived in the citadel and lower... Open it on the map · Read the story
Priam’s TreasureLegend In 1873 Heinrich Schliemann, digging at Hisarlik in Turkey, found a hoard of gold diadems, cups and jewellery and announced it as the treasure of King Priam of Troy. He was wrong by a thousand years, the gold is far older than... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Antikythera mechanismLegend Sponge divers working a wreck off Antikythera in 1901, at 45 metres, brought up a corroded lump of bronze that turned out to be a geared computer. It was built in the second century BC, probably between 150 and 100, and it... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Antikythera wreckLegend Sponge divers sheltering from a storm in 1900 found a Roman-era wreck off this small Greek island, and the salvage produced bronze and marble statues, glass, jewellery and a corroded lump of gears. That lump was the Antikythera... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Phaistos DiscLegend Luigi Pernier dug this out of the Minoan palace at Phaistos on 3 July 1908: a fired clay disc carrying 45 distinct signs impressed 242 times, 123 on one face and 119 on the other, dated somewhere between about 1850 and 1400 BC.... Open it on the map · Read the story
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