| Show the ancient mines of united states consul manatt at athens in a report on greek mining and metallurgy entera into tha history of the subject in an interesting manner the mines of laudium laurium Lauri um now worked for zinc lead and iron are he says the very mines from which drew the silver supply to fit out his fleet and beat back the persian invader at salamis E C and BO to lay the foundations of the athenian hegemony more than this it is thought probable that the phoenicians Phoenicia ns delved here before the greeks came as they are known to have done in the island of thados at any rate Tho ricus was a free city before theseus welded the attic boroughs into a single commonwealth that is to say before the nane of athens appeared in history and its importance must havo been due to tha mines so that tho mining industry at may possibly boast an origin as remote as thirty centuries back while it is again in fall blast today in walling through the french com banys great mine at camarena Ca maresa in the heart of the laudium laurium region one traverses here a gallery in active exploitation for zinc and lead and hard by another worked out by the old greeks two or three thousand years ago these ancient works are among the most interesting monuments of hellenic civilization |
