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Paestum (/ ˈ p ɛ s t ə m / PEST-əm, [1] US also / ˈ p iː s t ə m / PEE-stəm, [2] [3] Latin: [ˈpae̯stũː]) was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order dating from about 550 to 450 BC that are in an ...
Photos show what remains of the sacred building. The director of the Archaeological Park of Paestum, Tiziana D’Angelo, said in the release that excavations of the temples are almost complete.
The National Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum) is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum (Salerno, southern Italy) that houses archaeological finds from excavations of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia/Paistom, then Paestum. The museum is one of the major "on-site" museums in Italy.. [1]
The Tomb of the Diver is an archaeological monument, built in about 500 to 475 BCE [1] and found by the Italian archaeologist Mario Napoli on 3 June 1968 during his excavation of a small necropolis about 1.5 km south of the Greek city of Paestum in Magna Graecia, in what is now southern Italy.
The Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum, a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It was built around 500 BC and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been dedicated to Ceres , [ 1 ] but as a result of the recovery of numerous statuettes in ...
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The First Temple of Hera (Paestum)—also known as Temple of Hera I and the Basilica—is an archaic Doric order Greek temple in the ruins of the ancient city of Paestum, Italy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This Doric temple is considered one of the oldest Greek temples in Italy and is known for its distinctive architectural features.
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