Quand les archéologues redécouvrent Marseille. beaux arts This catalog

This catalog

which also includes a rich French glossary-index

The fragmentary remains of this settlement consist of three groups of residential structures dominated by food storage and production areas

Yvan Koenig

Quand les archéologues redécouvrent Marseille. beaux arts This catalogMarseille is the only city in France that can claim twenty six centuries of continuous urban history. Around 600 BC, Greek settlers from Phocaea in Asia Minor landed in the Lacydon cove and founded the trading post of Massalia. Over the centuries, gradually expanding onto the surrounding hills, the city grew. This topographical permanence led to the almost systematic destruction of successive buildings, whether ancient, medieval, or modern. It is