Mount Lykaio in Arcadia "reveals " it’s secrets

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Excavation work in the Mount Lykaio region, namely the Sanctuary of Zeus in the southwest of Arcadia, has revealed human activity from the Neolithic Age. The area was considered sacred land by the ancient Greeks as the birthplace of the king, born of Olympian gods, Zeus. Dr. Anna Karapanagiotou is the Director of 39th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Arkadia gives us further details of this extraordinary archeological discovery in an interview with Spiros Papastefanou



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