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The city of Messene in the southwest Peloponnese was founded in 369 BC when the Thebans liberated the region from Spartan control. The city thrived in Hellenistic and Roman times and excavations have revealed the expansive and impressive remains of the monumental city centre. Archaeological research at the site began in the early twentieth century, intensified in the 1960s with Anastasios Orlandos’ excavation of the Asklepieion and have been carried out on a large scale since the 1980s under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society and the leadership of Petros Themelis. A large...

Theopetra Cave is located in the northwestern corner of the plain of Thessaly in Central Greece (39.67991, 21.68122). Facing north from a prominent limestone hill of the same name, it lies approximately 5.5km southeast of the Municipality of Meteora and the well-known monasteries in the area. The Thessalian Plain was a major focus for Neolithic farming communities, with numerous significant settlements all the way to the coast in the east. It was also occupied during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic, and...

The  Prehistoric  Tumuli  of  Marathon  Project  was  submitted  in  2013  to  the  Athens  Archaeological  Society  by  a  team  of  researchers  under  the  joint  direction  of  Prof.  Maria Pantelidou  Gofa  (University  of  Athens),  Prof.  Gilles...

PUBLISHED 2007. Please visit the publication's webpage: The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna: Results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Beneath the famous remains of the House of the Tiles and the other Bronze Age remains found at Lerna, a large amount of Neolithic pottery was found during 1950s excavations by the American School of Classical Studies. Although the mixing of material makes it impossible...

PUBLISHED 1999.
Please visit the publication's webpage: Franchthi Neolithic Pottery

Franchthi Cave...