Archeology in Greece

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Archeological find in Peania

January 24, 2021: Story at Skai [English]

Archeological discovery in south Peloponnese

Ancient 4th to 2nd century BC tombs discovered - story at Keep Talking Greece [Greek]

Nov 30, 2020

Greece archeological museums ranked highly online

Oct 10, 2020: Story at Protothema [English]

Thessaloniki archeological find to be removed then brought back after construction

March 7, 2020: Story at eKathimerini [English]

Archeological artifact goes back to Greece from Germany

Nov 15, 2019: An ancient wine cup - story at Archeology.org [English]

Investigation of the Acropolis of Glas archeological feat

Nov 8, 2019: Story at ABC News [English]

Multiple underwater archeological finds made off Kasos

Nov 7, 2019:Story at Newsweek [English]

Archeological find in ancient Sparta

October 25, 2019: Story at Fox News [English]

Arrests on Kalymnos for underwater archeological site stealing

October 1, 2019: Story at Keep Talking Greece [English]

Byzantine archeological find on Kythnos

September 7, 2019: Story at France24 [English]

Homer comes alive at Iklaina

August 25, 2019: Archeology story at eKathimerini [English]

Archeological discovery of two unmolested tombs in Nemea

August 12, 2019: Story at WDBJ7 [English]

Archeological remains found from ancient Battle of Salamis

June 17, 2019: Story at Newsweek [English]

COSCO work at Piraeus to be limited in future?

April 3, 2019: Expansion would include archeological areas, so the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) has halted the plan. Story at Protothema [English] and at eKathimerini [English] and at Liberal.gr [Greek]

Sunken archeological sites to be developed

April 9, 2019: Story at Yahoo on plans of the Ministry of Culture [English]

German woman returns ancient mosaics

The story is that during the 1960s the unnamed woman took mosaics from Delos and Athens archeological sites. She has now placed them with the Greek Embassy in Berlin in order to achieve their return. Story at Tornos News. [Over the centuries a great number of artifacts have been removed from Greece, usually illegally - - for example, the most famous being the "Elgin marbles aka Parthenon Marbles".)

October 18, 2018

Ancient figure and artifacts found on Santorini

Keep Talking Greece on this archeological find which includes a marble proto-cycladic female figurine plus jars and vials.

October 12, 2018

Archeology.org on a large, rock-cut chamber tomb dating to the early Mycenaean era found near Orchomenos. A second article describes some of the objects found in the tomb.

October 5, 2018

Long-Lost temple of Artemis revealed after 100-year search - Newsweek

"The Swiss-led team discovered the site at the foot of the a hill near the fishing town of Amarynthos, which lies on the western shore of the island, just off the Greek mainland. The temple was finally uncovered six miles from the site where experts had originally believed the sanctuary to be located."

September 23, 2017

Pressure Grows for Museums to Return Stolen Objects - Der Spiegel

December 10, 2014

More about the Parthenon Marbles (aka "Elgin Marbles")

"A marble cycladic female figurine is on display at Greece's National Archeological Museum on June 6 after its return to the country after nearly 40 years in Germany.

The museums have now been directed to review the provenance of all archeological objects that have entered into the collections since 1970. A representative of each museum has been appointed to conduct the review. Pazinger also promises "We will always be prepared to return things if it can be proven that they are of illegal origin."

The looting of the National Museum of Iraq after the American invasion in 2003 and the photographs of destroyed cultural sites in civil war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa have prompted debates about the protection of these treasures throughout the West, including Germany. Dubious purchases had been made for years by Western museums, but the practice is now widely considered to be immoral."

Sphinx head found in Amphipolis - IBN News – October 23, 2014

"Archaeologists excavating the tomb of Amphipolis in northern Greece have uncovered the head of one of the two sphinxes that guard the entrance to the site which dates back to the time of Alexander the Great.

The head was found in the third chamber of the tomb in a marble threshold at a depth of 15 cm, the Greek culture ministry said on Wednesday.

The piece is largely intact and only has a small fracture in the nose. It is marble, measures 60 cm and is from the eastern sphinx."

Roman wreck off Greece yields treasures - Herald Net – October 12, 2014

"Archaeologists armed with top-notch technology have scoured one of the richest shipwrecks of antiquity for overlooked treasures, recovering a scattering of artifacts amid indications that significant artworks may await discovery under the seabed. Lying 164 feet down a steep underwater slope off Antikythera Island, in southern Greece, the Roman commercial vessel’s wreck was accidentally located by sponge divers more than a century ago. Using primitive suits and assisted by the Greek navy, they raised marble and bronze statues, luxury tableware and the so-called Antikythera Mechanism, an entrancingly complex clockwork computer that tracked the cycles of the Solar system and could predict eclipses to a precise hour on a specific day.

For years too deep for proper investigation, the wreck is now accessible through modern applied science.

Over the past three weeks, a U.S. and Greek-led team comprehensively mapped the seabed, despite being hampered by strong winds that only allowed archaeologists a single day’s use of their star gadget — an Iron Man-like diving suit, likened to a wearable submarine, that can take its wearer more than 985 feet deep without the dangerous and time-consuming process of decompression.

The Greek Culture Ministry said Thursday that divers raised sample artifacts — a bronze spear probably belonged to a larger than life-sized statue, metal fittings from the 1st century B.C. wooden ship, a pottery flask that may have contained wine or oil and a metal leg from a bed."

Thessaloniki subway compromised by major archeological find - BBC

March 14, 2013

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