Tower of the Winds

A century later, the Romans shifted Athens' central marketplace from the sprawling Ancient Agora, creating a smaller, more orderly one around the tower.

The Ottomans made their mark by building a mosque on the same site. In the 20th century archaeologists used the Forum as a repository for unclassifiable smaller finds from all over Attica, which explains the presence of the odd Byzantine grave marker or garlanded sarcophagus.