Science: Archaeology: Regional: Europe: Greece

Collection of useful links on Greek archaeology. Research institutes, architecture, sites, craft and engineering, and special topics.

Essays on Dark Age archaeology by Jan Sammer.

From the times, s stele sold by Bonhams last year is being returned to Greece next week after a London dealer who bought it discovered that the inscribed upright stone slab had been stolen from a museum there 21 years ago.

From ekathimerini, finds at Archontiko, near Pella in northern Greece, have shed further light on the wealth, heroic culture, commerce and burial rituals of ancient Macedonians, following the discovery of 396 unlooted tombs and 5,000 objects, dating between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE.

Article on the various excavated cities in Crete.

Gallery of Byzantine art and historical related images.

Investigation of the 2 km canal built by King Xerxes across a isthmus on the Athos peninsula in northern Greece to allow his fleet safe access into the Aegean in advance of the Persian invasion of the early fifth century BCE.

Collection of photographic images of the Temple of Apollo,and the Acrocorinth.

Collection of photographic images of Delphi: Temple of Apollo, Sanctuary of Athena, and the Athenian Treasury.

By Dr. Janice Siegel of Temple University. Award-winning site with photographs and lectures on ancient Greece.

Report on the excavations conducted in the cave during 1996 by Yannos G. Lolos, Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Epirus.

Dutch archaeological study of the occupational history of the acropolis site of Geraki in Laconia, and its relationship to the rest of Laconia and the Aegean world. The methods used include topographical studies, intensive survey, and excavation.

Excavations at Arethousa, Greece, conducted by the Finnish Institute at Athens. Site dates from the Neolithic period onwards and the study is centered on an ancient basilica and its environs.

Extensive listing of archaeological sites and excavations in Greece and Cyprus.

The project studies the emergence of statehood and social complexity in ancient Greece by investigating the area around Iklaina, a district capital of the ancient kingdom of Pylos, in southwest Peloponnese; by the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Photographs of the palace built c.1700-1300 BC taken by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College. Part of her Digital Imaging Project.

Multi-disciplinary and diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1996 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement and land use in an area centered on the Greek colony of Apollonia. The project employs techniques of intensive archaeological surface survey in conjunction with natural environmental investigations.

Information about all the major and some of the minor archaeological sites of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete. Descriptions and photos.

Collection of photographic images of the Citadel and Lions Gate.

Bryn Mawr College and American School of Classical Studies intensive surface survey and analysis of an area of approximately 80 square kilometers in the southern Corinthia, Greece.

An interdisciplinary archaeological project studying life in Sphakia, Crete, from the time that people arrived in the area (by ca 3000 BCE), until the end of Ottoman rule in AD 1900. It involves the use of environmental, archaeological, documentary, and local information collected over a 13-year period.

Photographs, 3D computer model, brief description and bibliography of the great Minoan palace from Great Buildings Online.

An introduction with artist's impression and visitor information from Dilos Holiday World.

Excavation of a sites on the island of Mochlos and its adjacent coastal plain in eastern Crete, sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Athens.

Offers an interactive map, photos and brief summaries of the archaeological sites.