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.