The foundation of the first Paleontological Museum and Natural History Park of the Peloponnese were laid in August this year at the Isioma Karyon area near Megalopolis, north of Kalamata.
Here a visitor will be able to see in a single space anything that relates to the movement of continents, Pangaea – the huge continent of the past – the ocean that became the Mediterranean Sea and is shrinking as the African continent is moving closer to Europe – until it is completely obliterated in millions of years from now – and the development of the Aegean land mass, which today includes the Aegean Sea, the Peloponnese, mainland Greece, and other parts.
Dr. George Theodorou, professor of paleontology and stratigraphy at the University of Athens and director of its Paleontology and Geology Museum, is an experienced excavator and researcher who has worked in the field for decades. At the link below are excerpts from an interview he granted in Greek to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on a little-known facet of Greece’s heritage, its rich paleontological past.
Read more here.
RELATED TOPICS: Greece, Greek tourism news, Tourism in Greece, Greek islands, Hotels in Greece, Travel to Greece, Greek destinations , Greek travel market, Greek tourism statistics, Greek tourism report
Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Copyright: NASA MODIS License: CC-BY-SA
Source: ANA-MPA
