Kerameikos Ancient Cemetery Athens

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Kerameikos Ancient Cemetery Athens

A plague pit and approximately 1000 tombs from the 4th and 5th century BC were discovered during excavations for a subway station just outside the cemetery of Kerameikos. Thucydides describes the panic caused by the plague, which struck Athens and Sparta in 430, lasting for two years, killing a third of the population.