See the Historic Ruins Hidden Inside Everyday Buildings in Athens

The sun had just started to set when the lights on the streets of Athens turned on one by one, illuminating the Greek capital. On a cold winter night in early 2024, I followed Lydia Carras to her home, a beautiful neoclassical building in Plaka, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the world, believed to have been continuously inhabited for more than 5,000 years. Carras unlocked the heavy front door, and as we…