ANCIENT GREEK TEMPLE
FIND IN SOUTH MACEDONIA.
EXCAVATED BY ACCIDENT.
Timas. LONDON, Dec. 6. The Belgrade correspondent? of the Times reports that an ancient Greek temple was discovered while the foundations of a church were being dug at Doiran, in Southern Macedonia. Workmen, at a depth of six feet, found large columns of white marble. Ignorant of its archaeological value, the men considerably injured tho columns in the course of the work. They even allowed people to carry off portions. Two well-preserved marble tablets were also found bearing finely-carved reliefs of the heads of six Greek gods. The Archaeological Society of Belgrade is trying to recover the missing portions, in order to reconstruct the temple is far as possible. They have already unearthed an enormous vase in which two men can sCand, besides many human bones and lairge quantities of ancient coins.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 11
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