archaeology Greece

“The findings show that the shafts were deliberately opened for the extraction of flint, and the imprints of the extraction tools have been preserved,” the head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kefalonia and Ithaca, Grigoris Grigorakakis told Ta Nea.

Ancient district off the Acropolis' south slope showcased with 1,150 ancient artifacts, many exhibited for the first time 'under the museum'

The archaeological museum on the northeast Aegean island of Samothrace, where the eponymous Winged Victory or Nike of Samothrace was discovered in the mid-19th century, was reopened this month, renovated and upgraded. Considered one of the most remote islands in the Aegean due to its distance from major Greek mainland ports and lack of an […]

The celebrated Antikythera shipwreck, named after the small southwest Aegean isle in whose waters the eponymous artifact-cum-ancient-mechanism was discovered, continues to yield significant archaeological finds from the sunken vessel. The latest underwater expedition, conducted in May and June this year by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece and the Greek Culture Ministry’s Ephorate of Underwater […]

In archaeological excavations, a sixteenth-century B.C. purple dye workshop was discovered on the Greek island of Aegina by Lydia Berger of Paris Lodron University and her colleagues, according to a statement released by PLOS. In their study, Berger and her team describe a sixteenth-century B.C. workshop located in the ancient settlement of Kolona on Aegina, […]

An Italian researcher is claiming that a set of papyri found in Italy reveal the burial place in Athens of Greek philosopher Plato

One of the most remarkable sites in Greece, the Petralona Cave where a prehistoric skull was found, has reopened to the public