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A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. The tombs date from 1350 – 1200 BC, the era in which Mycenae thrived as a major centre of Greek civilization. They contain the remains of 21 individuals who
Evidence of a powerful female bloodline emerges from the Iron Age necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete. For a quarter century, Greek excavation director Nicholas Stampolidis and his dedicated team have been unearthing the untold stories of the people buried some 2,800 years ago in the necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete. Until now, the site
Γεωφυσικές έρευνες στο λόφο της Κεφαλάς στην Κνωσό αποκάλυψαν ευρήματα από την αρχαιότερη αγροτική κατοικία στην Ελλάδα και ίσως στην Ευρώπη, η οποία χρονολογείται μεταξύ 7000 και 6400 π.Χ. Τη σημαντική αυτή ανακάλυψη παρουσίασε απόψε η διευθύντρια της Βρετανικής Σχολής στην Αθήνα και καθηγήτρια πανεπιστημίου κα Κάθριν Μόργκαν στην ετήσια ανοιχτή συνάντηση της Σχολής στο κτίριο της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας. Η
Hadjidaki, a self-described “harbor girl,” was born and grew up in the Cretan seaside town of Chania. An experienced and passionate diver trained in classical archaeology, she received funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory in 2003 to search for early ships near Crete. “I always wanted to find a Minoan shipwreck,” she says, “so I started looking for one.”
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Prehistoric axes found on a Greek island suggest that seafaring existed in the Mediterranean more than a hundred thousand years earlier than thought.Two years ago a team of U.S. and Greek archaeologists were combing a gorge on the island of Crete (map) in Greece, hoping to find tiny stone tools employed by seafaring people who had plied nearby waters some
A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution. They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains. East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, and to the south is the Syrian border, visible 20
Article by Prof. Christos Doumas (in Greek).
Φορτωμένο εμπορεύματα ήταν το μυκηναϊκό πλεούμενο (μήκους έως 10 μέτρων) που πριν από 3.200 χρόνια τσακίστηκε στις βραχώδεις ακτές της νησίδας Μόδι ή Λιοντάρι στον Αργοσαρωνικό. Αν και δεν είναι πολύ σαφές τι κουβαλούσε στο τελευταίο ταξίδι του το μικρό αυτό καράβι στους κατοίκους των γύρω περιοχών, πολλά μπορεί κανείς να υποθέσει, βλέποντας τους είκοσι πιθαμφορείς και τις υδρίες που
Traces from the big explosion of the Santorini volcano that occurred in the 17th century BC, have been discovered by Greek scientists in the Ionian Sea, in the depth of 4.000 metres.
It takes a brave soul to rewrite history by sailing against current thought. More than 500 years after Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, another seaman is doing just that, entering previously uncharted academic waters with claims that other “Europeans” — the Minoans — got there first, thousands of years earlier. Gavin Menzies, 72 years old, is drawing on his experience as
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Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected. That is the startling implication of discoveries made the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete. Stone ools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earliest known seafaring
One of the world’s oldest shipwrecks has been discovered off the coast of Devon after lying on the seabed for almost 3,000 years. The wreck has been found in just eight to ten metres of water in a bay near Salcombe, south Devon, by a team of amateur marine archaeologists from the South West Maritime Archaeological Group. In total, 295
The surgeon was dressed in a goat or sheep skin and used a sharpened stone to amputate the arm of his patient. The operating theatre was not exactly Harley Street — more probably a wooden shelter — but the intervention was a success, and it has shed light on the medical talents of our Stone Age ancestors. Scientists unearthed evidence
Abstract of a lecture that was given by Sandy MacGillivray at the Getty Villa on Saturday 6 February 2010.
Articles in the Greek press about the lecture of Professor Christos Doumas given at the Archaeological Society at Athens on the 4th of February.
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