Kerameikos

If old cemeteries are your thing, Kerameikos, an ancient burial site of the Athens elite, contains graves dating back to the third millennium B.C. through the sixth century A.D.

The Most Amazing Hidden Sites In The World The Huffington Post 2011

If old cemeteries are your thing, Kerameikos, an ancient burial site of the Athens elite, contains graves dating back to the third millennium B.C. through the sixth century A.D.

The Most Amazing Hidden Sites In The World The Huffington Post 2011

These urns today are in the Kerameikos and National Museums in Athens.

The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008

Housed in a restored five-story villa in the historical Kerameikos district, the collection was amassed by Antonis Benakis, the scion of a wealthy Greek trading family.

Snapshots Of Islam 2008

A new addition to the route will allow access to the Kerameikos, the cemetery of the ancient city's most distinguished figures, beginning next week.

Olympic Fever Extends to Athenian Museums 2004

The kouros is similar to an over life-size one in the National Museum in Athens found in several pieces, the first in the Kerameikos more than 70 years ago, and a life-size one acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1932.

Old Site, New Tricks 2002

Excavations have been ongoing at the Kerameikos, an ancient cemetery just outside Athens 'city wall, for nearly a century and a half.

Old Site, New Tricks 2002

The Athenian Kerameikos (1991), J. Binder's translation of Ursula Knigge's guide to the Kerameikos, Der Kerameikos von Athen: Führung durch Ausgrabungen und Geschichte (Athens: Krene Verlag, 1988), may be difficult to find outside Greece, but the Blue Guide to Greece has a useful overview of the cemetery and its monuments as well as of the Dêmosion Sêma.

Fallen Heroes: Further Reading 2000

The greatest number of finds was made at four stations in the city center: Syntagma, the city's central plaza; Kerameikos, near an important classical cemetery; Monastiraki, a square close to the Roman-era library of Hadrian, and the Acropolis, at the foot of the ancient monuments.

Subway to the Past 2000

More than 1,000 ancient tombs were destroyed in building what was to be the Kerameikos station, now a huge, empty hole.

Athens Metro Update 1999