In Athens, artifacts from the Homeric era were found in the basement of a store

Antiquities dating back to the Homeric era of ancient Greece (1100-750 BC) and the Hellenistic period (30 BC) were found in Athens in the basement of the store of the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum. The Greek Ministry of Culture said on December 11.

"The protection of cultural property is a statutory duty of the Ministry of Culture and one of our top policy priorities," Culture Minister Lina Mendon said.

3,247 ancient coins, medals, religious objects, seal stones, lead ingots and many other antiquities were found in the heart of Athens.

Almost all of the artifacts were in a hard-to-reach basement that could only be accessed through a hatch on the first floor. They were found packed in old boxes and newspaper files from the 1940s.

The finds were handed over to the Athens Numismatic Museum pending the outcome of the investigation. After which the artifacts will undergo an appraisal examination in the Central Archaeological Council of Greece to determine their value.

Earlier, on December 5, it became known that during the restoration of the ancient building of the High Court in Denmark was found about 300 ancient skeletons. According to experts, the court building was built on the territory of the monastery cemetery.

At the same time it was reported that archaeologists excavating in Chersonese Tauric on the territory of modern Sevastopol, found in the necropolis finds of the Roman period, thanks to which they were able to reveal new data on funeral rituals adopted 2 thousand years ago. For the first time, specialists were able to compare data on the place of cremation with the place of subsequent burial of ashes.