It seems that modern plumbing is not so modern. A series of symposia on the on-going excavations undertaken by archaeologists in Pella, the birthplace of Alexander the Great, have revealed that Hellenistic-era Pella enjoyed plumbing and furnaces.

The excavations in Pella have added to the findings of a dig in nearby Archontikon at Giannitsa.

Whereas the recent finds in Pella have been from the post-Christian Hellenistic period, houses and domestic utensils have been found at Archontikon dating back 4,000 years to pre-historic Greece.

Meanwhile, the island of Lemnos continues to provide archaeologists with further evidence that an advanced civilization was based at the present excavation site of Poliochhni.

Archeologists have excavated a a quasi-Parliament, or “vouleuterion” in Poliochhni.

Greek archaeological sources argue that four millennia before Christ and the ancient city of Troy, the “vouleuterion” in Poliochni  represented the first signs of the democratic impulse in Ancient Greece.