Not far from our hotel, we started the morning at a set of basilicas in Nea Anchialos, the most important early Christian site in Greece. There are 9 churches there and Glenn led us through Basilica A and Basilica B.
Next we visited the palace of ancient Demetrias where Charles gave his report. There was still plaster and paint on some of the walls.
We got word from the guard at the site that the archaeologist who found the Apollo statue we saw yesterday was available and wanted to meet with us! He also let us into the nearby theater.
Next we went to the prehistoric site of Sesklo where Flint gave the first half of his report.
He gave the rest of his report at another prehistoric site, Dimini. There were ongoing excavations so we couldn't take pictures at the site. We did take pictures at the tholos tomb at Dimini.
Then at the Volos museum, Angele gave her report on the painted grave stelai housed there.
There were some other pretty cool things in the museum, too.
Our last stop of the day was at the site of Goritsa scarred by an industrial compound.
While we sat on the top of the hill which, in the other direction, overlooked some beautiful scenes, we heard from Jennifer about depictions of Achilles in art.
The trash cans at the foot of the hill were awesomely decorated, too.
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