handanvalidesultan:HISTORY MEME | Greek Version | [8+9/9] UNESCO World Heritage List→ Pythagoreion a

handanvalidesultan:HISTORY MEME | Greek Version | [8+9/9] UNESCO World Heritage List→ Pythagoreion and Heraion of SamosClassified by the World Heritage under the criteria of:ii. “exhibits an important interchange of human values, over a span of time, or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design”iii. “to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared”The archaeological site of Pythagoreion holds many Ancient Greek and Roman monuments as well as the famous Tunnel of Eupalinos, an aqueduct that is dated from the 6th century BC. In a nearby area is the Heraion of Samos which bares the ruins of a large sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Hera. The connection between Samos and Hera is in the myth that tells of Hera’s birth on the island where she was born under a lygos tree (‘the chaste tree’). The site is known to have undergone many constructions and reconstructions, the first building dated to around 8th century BC. This continued during the Roman period until the 391 AD Theodosian edicts which forbade pagan practices.  A Christian church took over the place for a while until the area became a quarry site during the Byzantine age which dismantled the place.  There are very few sources that have survived about the site and archaeological research only fully began in the late 19th century and then again in the early 20th century. German archaeologists from the German Archaeological Institute at Athens began to excavate in 1925, stopping with the Second World War, re-starting in 1951 and then again in 1976. Both sites received World Heritage status in 1992. images used (x) (x) -- source link

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