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Sunday, June 10, 2018

Pikermi excavation: When monkey, giraffes, rhinos and hyenas lived near Athens

It was in 1835, a few years after the founding of the Greek state, when a Bavarian soldier of King Otto’s army walks along the banks of the Great Stream of ​​Pikermi, known today as Valanaris. While searching for something that he could take back to his homeland, he finds a white hollow object with … The post Pikermi excavation: When monkey, giraffes, rhinos and hyenas lived near Athens appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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