that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. now on bbc news it's time fro the travel show. this week on the travel show... i am in greece with a team of archaeologists, uncovering the long—lost city of tenea. i found an artefact! plus, i'm going into battle. finding out what it was like for the crew of an ancient athenian warship. we're heading to athens to uncover greece's ancient treasures,

and the more modern ones. for more than two millennia, the temple of the parthenon has been towering over what has become the bustling capital city of greece. nestled at the bottom of its slopes, the modern acropolis museum houses most of the artefacts found in the area. and this year, it celebrates its 10th anniversary. this museum replaced an older building that had become just too small to house the sheer number of antiquities found on the hill. it's ten times the size, it's got a unique collection, and as you can see from the queues, it's pretty popular. almost 15 million people have passed through the doors of the museum since it was opened a decade ago. and to mark the anniversary, a whole new section has just been opened to the public

underneath the building. so, what are we looking at here? this is part of the ancient city of athens which is at the foot of the acropolis hill. it's actually a residential neighbourhood. there are houses of everyday people, and workshops, bath, private and public buildings. the acropolis museum was built on top of this vast excavation site, a challenge for any good architect. but a source of great pride for angeliki, who spent almost two decades here uncovering the homes of ancient athenians. i can see there's sort of a tiled floor in the middle there. would that have been a room? this is the central courtyard of the house of a middle—class house. quite big one, sort of, 360 square metres. it's an open—air courtyard.

while archaeologists here have put down their shovels and brushes for good, there are enough forgotten treasures around greece to keep them in work. greece is like heaven for history geeks like me and if you know where you're looking, there're artefacts around every corner. i am driving to one of the most exciting ongoing excavation sides about 1.5 hours outside athens. last year, greek archaeologists announced to the world that they had located the lost city of tenea which until then had only existed on the pages of ancient texts. the city is believed to have been built by prisoners of the legendary trojan war, and this month the excavation continued here in chiliomodi. it is considered one of the 15 most important excavations worldwide. tenea is a city coming out of myth. oedipus was supposedly raised here.

agamemnon brought trojan prisoners all the way from troy and established them here. so here we are excavating ancient tenea, its cemeteries, its ancient roads, its houses, and slowly by slowly comes to life. tourists and scholars will soon be able to explore the excavation site in a virtual museum through sd animations. in the meantime, there's still some very practical work to do. less than 5% of tenea has been uncovered so far. digging up the past should keep archaeologists busy here for many decades to come. it'sjust the beginning. it will continue. without me, but i will always be here from somewhere looking at it. just casting an eye over, you know, making sure everyone‘s doing the right thing. definitely.

to end the show this week, i've come a short distance outside of the athens city centre to the coast. and this place — it's what's become known as the ‘athens riviera'. there are plenty of cool cafes, ritzy new hotels and plenty of course, plenty of luxury yachts. moored close to the modern yachts, a different kind of ship is ready to go out to sea. the trireme olympias — the only life—sized replica in the world of the athenian battleships which dominated the naval wars from the fifth century bc until early christian times. this amazing looking galley belongs to the greek navy, and every year, groups of very lucky people get to go aboard and actually row, just like ancient athenians did. this year, i'm one of those lucky people. so, i better get ready, i think it's going to be quite hard work. it took 20 years of passionate research to work out a design for this trireme, as no remains

of the wooden boats could be found. she was constructed here in greece in 1987. the important thing for the rowers of the boat, is that they were free citizens. it was a great honour to be a rowerfor trireme. and in such a small boat, we have so many people. they are the machine and they help the boat to move. i think it sounds like a fantastic lot of fun and hard work. yes. so will you maybe show me how to do it? yes, of course. wow! look at this. wow, this is amazing. this is the naval way to go down. definitely.

this ship carries two small sails, just like in ancient times, most of the propulsion comes from the 170 oarsmen staggered over three levels under the deck. it's quite tight in here. as i told you. here we are going to put your feet in there. so, you sit in here. what's your technique? the technique must be like that. lift it up out of the water... one, two. pull. yes, yes, yes. wow! i think i'm going to have very good abs after this. yes, yes, yes. i will give you the orders. yes, absolutely. thank you so much. you're welcome. well, my fellow rowers are starting to arrive now. so i've picked a plum spot,

right in the middle of the action. i'm ready for ramming speed. reaching speeds of about nine knots, or 17 kilometres per hour, this boat was considered pretty quick in its time. and its manoeuvrability won athens some decisive victories at sea. the bronze ram served as the main weapon to puncture the hulls of enemy ships and to sink them. we get a break, every so often.

0h, here we go again. dramatic strings music. i'm looking around. it's honestly impossible to imagine what this must‘ve been like for the people here who rowed these kind of boats. and to be in battle, three layers of different people all sweating, trying to ram another boat in the open sea.

i mean, it's unimaginable given how pleasant and lovely this is today. fortunately, this trireme is now being used for less ferocious purposes. for now, the 0lympias is going back to the port for some pampering, it will spend the winter there before being spruced up for a new set of visitors in 2020. a lot of hard work with all that rowing, but a good bit of fun, too. well, that's all we've got time for this week's travel show. but coming up next week... mike's underwater in turkey to see if sinking old planes can really provide a safe haven for local marine life. and he meets the 96—year—old woman who spent three decades fighting to save the country's endangered loggerhead turtles. some said i was mad, others said i was a spy. so, dojoin us then if you can.

and in the meantime, don't forget to sign up to our social media feed so you can check out what we're up to out on the road, and share your travel stories with us and the rest of the world. until next time, from me — christa larwood — and the rest of the travel show team here in athens, it's goodbye. or, as the locals would have it, ‘ya—sas‘! good evening. most of us will have seen wit where at some point around a lot over the weekend. for some, the rain has caused problems especially in eastern england. you can see the way in which the rangers piled its way in across parts of norfolk and suffolk in particular. that's rain now starting to fizzle away and clear south—eastwards, we have a dry interlude to come through the rest of tonight. some clear spells overhead, it may turn misty

in places. that dry interlude will not last long, boring pitches in from the west by the end of the night, increasingly strong winds as well. with the cloud and rain and wind, it will be fairly mild in the west, a cold night in the east, 5 or 6 celsius. low pressure in charge tomorrow, really strong winds blowing across the north—west of the uk, the western isles could see gusts of 62 be 70 mph, strong winds elsewhere as well. this band of rain will push eastwards. there probably will push eastwards. there probably will not be quite as much rain as some places today, but still, a further 20 or 30 millimetres on top of what we have already had could cause some problems, it may be some further localised flooding, certainly the potential for some travel problems. brightening up for scotla nd travel problems. brightening up for scotland and northern ireland later in the day, a mixture of sunshine

and showers into the afternoon. low pressure still in charge on tuesday, showers heading our way, they may join together to give longer spells of rain at times. how to be too precise about the detail day by day, but it looks like we will see showers joining together into a longer spells of rain, sunny spells in between, a breezy day, highs of 13 to 17 associates. we will see showers on wednesday, perhaps focus on the western side of the country, maybe not as many showers in the east, temperatures still in the range of 13 to 15 celsius. heading throughout the week, it is these u nsettled, throughout the week, it is these unsettled, heavy downpours, sunny spells, often windy.

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