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Greetings and the results of the fundraising raffle

Dear members, dear friends, we would like to thank you very much for coming to the Annual Meeting of Aegeus! Once again, we had a wonderful evening! We present here the results of the fundraising raffle.

Fundraising Raffle

Dear members, dear friends, in order to raise money for the aims of our Society we are organising a fundraising raffle. One ticket costs 5 Euros, while 3 tickets 10 Euros. The results will be announced during our Annual Meeting. Our first prize will be five (5) days (4 nights stay) for 2 people at the luxury hotel VOREINA GALLERY SUITES, including breakfast and a private pool in the traditional settlement of Pyrgos in Santorini (with an open invitation for one year). The full catalogue of the prizes will be ready in the following days.

“ART IN GOLD. Jewellery in Hellenistic Times”. Private guided tour of the Benaki Museum only for the members and friends of Aegeus!

The dazzling exhibition "Art in Gold. Jewellery in Hellenistic Times" is coming to an end and the curator of the Benaki Museum Irene Papageorgiou, in collaboration with the goldsmith Akis Goumas, has offered to give a private tour to the members and friends of Aegeus (in Greek). The tour will take place this Sunday (April 6) at 1 pm. If you wish to participate, please send us an email at aegeussociety@gmail.com. A priority order will be kept.

Results of the fundraising raffle

Dear members, dear friends, thank you very much for coming to the Annual Meeting of Aegeus! We had a wonderful evening! Unfortunately, due to an unexpected turnout, the doors of the British School were closed at around 6 pm. We apologize to those who were unable to attend Prof. Yiannis Hamilakis’s lecture.

Results of the fundraising raffle:

1st prize: 5

Fundraising Raffle

Dear members, dear friends, in order to raise money for the aims of our Society we are organising a fundraising raffle. One ticket costs 5 Euros, while 3 tickets 10 Euros. The results will be announced during our Annual Meeting on May 27. Our first prize will be five (5) days (4 nights stay) for 2 people at the luxury hotel VOREINA GALLERY SUITES, including breakfast and a private pool in the traditional settlement of Pyrgos in Santorini (with an open invitation for one year). The full catalogue of the prizes will be ready in the following days.

Digitization of 200 publications on Greek prehistoric archaeology

We are happy to inform you about a new section on our website. The new section presents 200 digitized publications on Greek prehistoric archaeology, published from 1847 to 1955. Many of the digitized publications belong to archaeologists who have marked prehistoric archaeology, such as Heinrich Schliemann, Arthur Evans, Alan Wace and Carl Blegen. One of the aims of this project

Digitization of 200 publications on prehistoric archaeology

We are pleased to inform you that Aegeus received a grant from the Ministry of Culture for the first time. According to the proposal, 200 rare publications of the 19th and early 20th century on Greek prehistory will be digitized. Special care will be taken that these publications have not been digitized by other Institutions. The electronic publications will be presented on the website of Aegeus in February.

Aegeus stay at home!

Due to the coronavirus, all conferences and lectures have now been canceled, libraries remain closed and we are all urged not to move. In these very difficult hours we all live, Aegeus will try to offer you access to many interesting archaeological news, activities and publications from the comfort of your own home. Over the next days we will increase our digital benefits to our members as a compensation for the restrictive measures. Thus, we will regularly post on the website of Aegeus new books, articles and book reviews, as well as older videotaped lectures.

Newsletter on Aegean Prehistory

In the context of financial cuts, the Newsletter on Aegean Prehistory will be issued every two months, covering the following months: September-October, November-December, January-February, March-April, May-June. It will basically be issued at the end of the second month (October, December, February, April, June). Lectures, call for papers, or other urgent announcements will be sent to our members by email.

Subscription renewal

Due to the still ongoing financial crisis, many of our Greek members have not been able in the last years to renew their membership, so we can no longer meet our financial obligations. There are many members who have not renewed their membership for three continuous years.

10 years of Aegeus! Excursion to Mycenaean Achaia – Photopraphs

Our new academic year began with an excellent excursion to Mycenaean Achaia! We had the opportunity to visit the most important archaeological sites of Mycenaean times that are scattered in Achaia. We warmly thank the members of Aegeus who came to the excursion. We would like to extend our warm thanks to the archaeologists of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia Konstantina Aktypi and Michalis Gazis for any help they offered us.

10 years of Aegeus! Excursion to Mycenaean Achaia

Aegeus celebrates its ten years! To celebrate this important moment, we are organizing our first tour. In collaboration with our colleagues at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia, we will take an excursion to Mycenaean Achaia on 29-30 June. The programme will include a visit to the most important archaeological sites of Mycenaean times, an overnight stay, two lunch meals and, of course, coach travel. Some of the archaeological sites will open the afternoons exclusively for us (always in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia)!

Greeks: to where and from where? An archaeological seminar on the origins of Greeks

Aegeus and new start up “Achaeologist’s Home” launch a series of archaeological courses. The first course is entitled “Greeks: to where and from where? An archaeological and interdisciplinary search in space and time” and it will take place from 16 October until 18 December (every Tuesday from 6 to 8 in the even-ing). In this course of ten thematic les-sons, Dr. Theodoros G. Giannopoulos will examine the evolution of Greeks, “from where” (πόθεν) and “to where” (ποῖ δὴ), in a diachronic and interdisciplinary way.

Aegeus starts its new academic year with new Fellows!

We are pleased to inform you that the new academic year find us stronger, and with more Fellows. Maria Chountasi, Theodoros Giannopoulos, Artemis Karnava, Anastasia Papathanasiou and Vassilis Petrakis have now joined the main team of Aegeus. We thank them warmly for accepting our invitation.

Welcome to the new upgraded website of Aegeus!

Aegeus is happy to announce the launch of its new upgraded website. The new website includes some new features, such as an archive of books, articles and book-reviews by year, a catalogue of journals on Aegean Prehistory, an instagram page, etc. We are still improving some of our pages and we hope to have fully completed our new website by the end of June 2018. It is noteworthy mentioning that this site would never have been completed without the valuable support of our members.