What really blew my mind about Athens was that there are things there made by people we consider to be part of ancient civilisations, which used pieces of rock they scavenged from Greek ruins. Even in those ancient times Athens had stuff old enough to be considered already ancient.
That’s ancient squared.
It’s incomprehensibly old.
It’s so old old stuff was being built from it because it was already old by then.
As you can tell – I’m still struggling to wrap my head around the sheer volume of time since the ruins here were occupied.
Another thing that impressed me was how many amazing things there were scattered about the place. You’ll be walking along through a park or down a road and then out of nowhere there is a casual patch of history just hanging out.
These baths are a great example, peeking out from under a road.
Wasteless Wanderess 