Archaeology Matters

"Weeping Caryatids": An impressive mural by the artist INO in Monastiraki A new impressive mural by the artist INO adorns a buil...

A wooden statue of a male figure was found in the excavations that are being carried out for the extension of line 3 of the Athens Metro, ...

A simple black-slip 5th century skyphos (drinking cup) was discovered in a poor grave in Kifissia - a suburb of Athens. What makes the f...

Athens & Epidaurus Festival The larger modern Greek cities often strike the arriving visitor as an inhuman monstrosities, sweltering mas...

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN IT was gridlock in the British Museum the other morning as South African teenagers, Japanese businessmen toting Ha...

A treasure was hiddedn under no 24 Akamas street in Thiseio, Athens. During the archaeological control of the construction of the foundation...

Myrtis is almost 2500 years old. But her life was short. She died aged just 11, in the plague that hit ancient Athens during the Peloponnesi...

Delphoi , one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, is closed. Officially the reason is rock-slides that make the area of...

Image: Head Medusa ( gorgoneion ), from the House of Mosaics in Eretria (4th c. B.C.) The history of ancient Eretria from its founding to la...

Remains of the day ... fortifications of ancient Athens are showcased in the central Syntagma station. Photo: AFP Only in Athens could the ...

The Athens Metro apart from being spacious, clean and on time (no really, it is!) also is host to many interesting sights. Not just the sigh...

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Ministry Site: http://www.tdpeae.gr/index.php?ID=YUfBuoHpmwxsEEjb

South Slope of the Acropolis Ministry Site: http://www.tdpeae.gr/index.php?ID=Q9NlPGgK71MtUqBw

A part of the road followed in the time of Pericles by Athenians transporting the marble used to construct the Parthenon has come to light a...

Ancient texts, combined with cutting-edge and innovative technology explain and date the find. An image of panic, expressed with an unheard-...

Photo: Eleutherotypia, 24.03.2010 A building monstrosity in the middle of the Archaeological Park of the Academy of Plato Giorg...

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