New hope for forests of ancient Athens’ silver hills

Agios Konstantinos, Greece (AFP) Feb 15, 2023

It was once the source of Athens’ fabulous golden-age wealth before its hillsides were blackened by fire after fire and scandalously torched by a foreign mining company.

Now an ancient forest south of the Greek capital is finally to be revived having suffered catastrophe after catastrophe.

In the fifth century BC, Lavrio was home to the silver mines that made Athens a superpower of the a
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