Mosaics-Inside the Museum

Pebble mosaics are by far my favorite mosaics

Pella- The artefacts

Pella was Alexander the Great's capital city

an awesome table...I want this table

Pompeii, eat your heart out, the First Pompeiian style is actually Greek

Children's toy

This disembodied arm is actually...unsettling like this

The famous Eros and Psyche group...

Though I prefer this one

Delicately crafted ceramic flowers for a funerary wreath

Palia Pella- The approach

the long view back...can't see the main road? it's there

tumuli told me I was in an archaeological area

even if farms dominated

Installation

Some Decorative Street Art

St. Domicelos

You can see a bit of the age of the church in the stone incorporated into its architecture

2 Locksmiths

Tools of the Trade

This marks my 1000th blog post. Fittingly, it is of archaeology

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Fittingly, as an archaeologist, I work in the basement of the oldest building of the university

On the Street: Decay

On the Street: Vibrancy

Aristotelous Square

One of Salonica's newer churches

its golden dome can be seen across the bay

Protests and Demonstrations

around the White Tower is a protest camp and adorning every pylon are all kinds of protest posters and symbols-many international ones.

In from the countryside

White Tower