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The Road to Ancient Helike
by Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
Museum astronomer Steven Soter, who also works as a geoarchaeologist (a scientist who uses geology to investigate archaeological sites) is codirector, with Greek archaeologist Dora Katsonopoulou, of the Helike Project, which sent a dozen scientists and students into the field this past August and September. On a coastal plain of the northern Peloponnese, near modern Eliki, the team unearthed what is almost certain evidence of ancient Helike, which sank beneath the gulf during a major earthquake in 373 B.C. Soter, a soft-spoken staff scientist in the Museum's Division of Physical Sciences-Astrophysics, got his doctorate in astronomy from Cornell University in 1971 and for fifteen years was on the staff of Cornell's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. He worked as a research associate at the center with Thomas Gold, an astrophysicist who thinks that earthquakes are triggered by the release of gases that were incorporated into Earth during its formation and are now under enormous pressure from the overlying rock. Forcing their way up through cracks in the upper mantle, these gases can counteract the pressure that clamps Earth's tectonic plates together. The high-pressure gas reduces the friction across a fault, allowing the shearing forces in the rock to shift the plates sideways, sometimes catastrophically. From Gold's standpoint, it is a sudden decrease in fault strength, not a gradual increase in rock stress, that triggers an earthquake.

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Not sure where I quoted this from, probably a Berlitz guide to Greece or something:

Kalymnos, an island in the Aegean just north of Kos, between Kos and Samos, has some nice beaches (it says here), and a coastline with plenty of coves, cliffs, and caves (just love those Berlitz alliterative descriptions). In 535 AD an earthquake split off what is now an islet called Telendos and in the process submerged an ancient town still visible under the water (attention divers!).

The Globe, Ancient Times, msg 719, May 21, 2000 20:15:29 EDT

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Helike Archaeological Site
World Monument Fund
In 2001, archaeologists discovered the long-lost site of Helike, a Classical Greek city buried in an alluvial plain on the southwest shore of the Gulf of Corinth. According to ancient sources and modern field research, an earthquake in 373 B.C. destroyed and submerged Helike in the waters of a coastal lagoon, which gradually silted over. Because the site was never salvaged or looted, it is unusually well preserved.

Excavators also found an Early Bronze Age site nearby, containing artifacts from about 2500–2300 B.C. in a remarkable state of preservation. This little-explored site contains the oldest organized coastal settlement ever found in the state of Achaia. Initial trial trenches yielded numerous complete pottery vessels, together with gold and silver ornaments, suggesting that the buildings may belong to a royal megaron.

In Roman times, a road ran through Helike connecting the cities of Patras and Corinth. Today, the Greek National Railway plans to reduce travel time between the two cities by straightening existing train tracks through the alluvial plain and running a rail line through the middle of the Helike excavations. Scheduled for construction in 2005–2006, the planned railway project will destroy or render inaccessible many unexcavated areas of the ancient city of Helike. The Greek Archaeological Service and the Greek Ministry of Culture have not recognized the significance of the site. It is hoped that continued site listing will foster cooperation between site supporters and government officials in order to protect this important and fragile archaeological area.

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http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050922-055215-1802r

Erosion fears at Greece's Epidaurus theater to be investigated
September 22, 2005

ATHENS -- Greece's culture ministry will investigate reports that the fourth-century BC theater of Epidaurus, whose ancient Greek drama performances annually attract thousands of visitors, is threatened by soil erosion, deputy culture minister Petros Tatoulis said on Thursday.

"I have ordered our staff to investigate the issue," Tatoulis said in a statement received on Thursday, adding that he was "surprised" that ministry experts monitoring the status of the ancient theater in southern Greece had failed to inform him of any problems.

Leftist lawmaker Fotis Kouvelis submitted a parliamentary question on Epidaurus on Wednesday, warning that the theater was "threatened by landslides and humidity that saps its already weakened stone structure".

Kouvelis added that the problem is "exceptionally serious" as the monument, which constitutes a UNESCO World Heritage site, receives almost 1 million visitors every year.

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