Delphi

Day three, Delphi:

The Delphi site contains the ruins of Apollo's sancturay, and is also the place where those who sought to know the future could visit the oracle for a prediction. Basically the oracle was a woman that a bunch of old guys would get high, then she would start to babble incoherently and the old guys would interpret what she was saying and pass the information on...for a price, of course! The interpretations were kept as neutral as possible, so that the oracle could never be blamed if things didn't go as expected. It is sort of like when one of his ministers tries to explain or expand on something that Ed Stelmach has said.

The really amazing thing about this site is that it is on a mountain side and was buried so deep that a village had been rebuilt over the ruins. They moved out the villagers, dug down 5 - 6m, and voila!