Day 5 - The Ancient Athenian Cemetery

Okay, so here's the next installment.

The ancient Athenian cemetery: Keramikos. It was used for about 1500 years, from 12th century BC to the Roman period. One of my favorite statues of the trip is housed in the museum of Keramikos. It's a huge marble statue of a bull with huge bull balls. Ya gotta love the Greeks.


Go to the gallery if you want to see the captions.

There were two great things about the ancient cemetary: 1) no tourist herders. 2) Athenian tortoises. The tortoises owned the place. I stopped and watched a pair battle for about thirty minutes; tortoise fights tend to last a while. They consist of lots of snapping at each other's head and limbs and then trying to scoop the other under the breastplate in order to flip him on his back.