MAGNA GRECIA CITY OF KAULON AND ITS HELLENISTIC THERMAL MOSAIC

Dear readers, let's jump on the Ionian Sea in one of the Magna Graecia cities of Calabria KAULON, where a few years ago the oldest Hellenistic mosaic (25 square meters) of Magna Grecia was discovered. 

The mosaic carpet of the 4th century BC was part of a rare Greek thermal building.

city founded by the Acheans VII century b.C.

Archeology area of ancient KAULON

mosaic carpet IV century BC


remains of a peripteral Doric temple from the 5th century BC

At the bottom of the sea there are rocks of Doric columns from ancient Kaulon (foto da progetto Musas)




ANCIENT CALABRIA


Dott. Giuseppe Lombardo

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