424 v. Thucydides mentions Dion as the first city reached by the Spartan general Brasidas, coming from Thessaly (Tempi) in Macedonia.

The most important find of this first period of excavation was a Macedonian vault from the 4th century BC, Which had already been plundered by grave-robbers in ancient times.

Beginning in 2007, under the leadership of Semeli Pingiatoglou, excavations were carried out with the aim of finding the oldest structures of ancient Dion.

The Dionysus mosaic was removed from its original place of discovery in 2015 and transferred to a specially built building (Archaeotheke).

But when the women who killed Orpheus wanted to wash the blood from their hands in the Helikon, the river dried up, for he did not wish to have any part in this act.

In addition to the usual finds such as statues, pottery, jewelry, oil lamps etc., one found a ring stone from Mycenaean time.

In front of the temple stands an altar, to the base of which a metal ring was attached, which served to tie the sacrificial animals.

The Agoranomos (composed of the Greek words agora, market, and nomos, law) supervised the trading on the marketplace, set prices and had other tasks.

From the inscription of an eagle statuette found in the sanctuary of Zeus Hypsistus in September 2003, it appears that Arura, the servant (probably a slave) of Plutiades, was elected Agoranomos.

It has not yet been clarified whether the shrine was given its importance by the Olympic Games initiated by King Archelaus, or whether, inspired by Homer's Iliad, it had already played a central role for the region.

A funerary couch of marble with the representation of a battle of cavalry and parts of a frieze, displaying lions, remained.

The city wall was built from the limestone of Mount Olympus between 306 and 304 BC, under the rule of the Macedonian king Kassander.

After the attack of the Aitolians (219 BC), in which the city wall was partly destroyed, the protective barrier was repaired immediately.

Floods by the Helikon and Vaphyras rivers during the early Christian era considerably reduced the urban area of Dion.

The names of the former owners occasionally come from preserved parts of a mosaic, or from stamping the lead pipes, which served the water supply.

Two years earlier, the work in the atrium already found the head of the deer and the hand of Heracles holding the bow.

[17] Works in the year 1990 brought parts of a statue to light which is a copy of the "Eros with a Bow" of the sculptor Lysippus.

The 1.55 m thick outer wall was a major static element; She caught the side pressure of the Koilon and supported the roof.

[19] The natural stresses where the remains of the Odeon were exposed to, heat, frost and moisture, destroyed parts of the building material (mortar, wood) over the centuries.

The final work consisted of building a straight bearing surface from surrounding stones and covering them with specially made bricks.

The composition of the mortar was determined according to laboratory tests and established in collaboration with the Management Committee for the Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments of the Ministry of Culture and Sport.

The floor of the Odeon was covered with pebbles and the architectural elements found on the site, such as columns, were erected in their original place.

On the side facing the mountains, in the middle of the building surrounding the market, there was a temple (Sebasteion) presumably consecrated to the Roman emperors.

The entrance was on the south side; in the eastern part of the complex were five bedrooms and a luxurious dining room, the Triclinium.

In 2015, members of the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, published a study on the condition of the stone building materials of the Asklepion and the Demeter Sanctuary.

Mainly it was to be researched which environmental influences participate in which form in the decay process of the antique building materials in order to possibly preserve them.

The environmental conditions: Mostly the surfaces are covered with salt and a black crust containing calcium, magnesium, soda, potash and other substances.

In combination with heat and cold, it reduces the cohesion of the surface structure and thus leads to the instability of the ancient building material.

Teachers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki guiding through the archaeological park and inform about various topics that touch ancient Dion.

The arc spans from Greek mythology, the kingdom of Macedonia and the individual attractions of the park to daily life in the days of Alexander the Great.