The Greek god Zeus was honored by the ancients at an open-air sanctuary atop Mount Lykaion, new research shows. iStockPhotoFrom Discovery News:
An altar dedicated to the king of the gods was used for ritual ceremonies by the ancient Greeks.
Excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus atop Greece's Mount Lykaion have revealed that ritual activities occurred there for roughly 1,500 years, from the height of classic Greek civilization around 3,400 years ago until just before Roman conquest in 146.
"We may have the first documented mountaintop shrine from the ancient Greek world," says project director David Romano of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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