Things to find in Greece

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• Madan, the Rhodope minerals Gem & 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...
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• Mount Pentelicus marble Gem & 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...
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• Priam’s Treasure Legend
  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...
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• The Antikythera wreck Legend
  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...
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