Eretria

Erétria (Greek: Ερέτρια, literally "city of the rowers") was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea, south of Chalcis, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboean Gulf. Eretria was an important Greek polis in the 6th/5th century BC. However, it lost its importance already in antiquity. Excavations of the ancient city began in the 1890s and have been conducted since 1964 by the Greek Archaeological Service (11th Ephorate of Antiquities) and the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. Today, there is a modern Greek town of the same name on the ancient site. The first evidence for human activity in the area of Eretria are pottery shards and stone artefacts from the late Neolithic period...