Olympics | Archaeology Going to the Temple of Love

The clincher was a small anchor cut from stone. Digging at the site of the Olympic equestrian center, about 30 km southeast of Athens, archaeologist Michalis Sklavos already knew he was onto something — his team had unearthed a cluster of small clay bowls from around the 4th century B.C. followed by several washbasins which the ancients used, he said, "to cleanse their body before purifying their soul." That indicated the presence of a temple, but it was the stone anchor that revealed what kind of temple it was. It was "clearly an offering to a high priestess by a sailor,"...