The National Museum of Archeology Athens - Stone Age

Our first main attraction as a study group was the National Museum of Archeology in Athens, the biggest archeological collection in Greece and famous worldwide. My next posts will structure the exhibition in a chronological way, piece by piece.

In the Stona Age, people would have built ring forts like these from stones on natural hills to protect themselves. This has been found out by excavations and reconstructed afterwards.

The many colourful remains of ceramics amazed me ... to think that up until about 2200 BC these artifacts of various texture, colour, size and shape could be crafted! White, red and black ceramics with mostly geometrical shapes marked the beginning of the higher culture in prehistoric Greece and the start of the huge collection of artifacts!

An interesting sight were ritual artifacts for fertility made from ceramics (a phallus probably used in ceremonies).

Also everyday objects like frying pans were to be found. Is it not funny that today, ceramic pans and even knives become popular again? Yes, a different material with an improved formula ... but still, the basic idea has roots reaching so far back! Amazing, is it not? Part 2 will follow now!

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