Anatomy of a Minoan Tholos Tomb. The publication of the finds from the excavations at the Minoan cemetery of Koumasa

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg. He holds a BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens and a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include landscape archaeology, the social structures of Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations (particularly social hierarchy, political organisation, economy and religion), sealing practices, visual language, the interconnections between the Aegean and the Near East in the second millennium BCE, and modern strategies for the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. He has extensively published on Bronze Age Greece, Egypt and the Levant combining material and textual evidence and has participated in several excavations at major Bronze Age and Classical sites in Greece. He is currently directing an interdisciplinary research project at Minoan Koumasa (south Crete) aiming at the comprehensive study, reconstruction, and sustainable development of an archaeological landscape in a marginal Mediterranean region.