Oldest Remains
Since 2 600 BC archeological remains
have been found in the modern Piraeus.
Maybe in this early period it hadn't
got the importance of the later periods. Between the prehistoric inhabitants
there are some rests well preserved of the Minoan Age: the Cave of Arethusa,
on the hill of Castella, and the Syrangion, known as the "Cave of Paraskevas".'
Anyway it was an insignificant settlement
until 800 BC when historians have checked a growing in its importance.Its
important strategic value had grown when in late 6th century BC the peninsula
was first fortified by Hippias.
