Kleidi Samikou. In Kleidi-Samiko in Ilia, the fourth season of the synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia Samikou and ÖAI took place in 2025. The excavation is directed by Erofili Kollia (Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia), with Birgitta Eder (Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut) from the Austrian Institute.  Work in 2025 focused on two key areas. Inside the the temple of Poseidon, in an attempt to reveal the large NW room, to study its stromatography...

Alexander Sokolicek (University of Salzburg) reports on the 2025 excavation at the site of Kolona in Aigina.  During the opening of a trench inside a large stone-built structure located immediately outside and adjacent to the remains of the fortification wall that protected the extension of the Middle Bronze Age settlement (the so-called “inner suburb”), eight gold bi-conical disc-shaped pendants were found, along with one gold disc-shaped pendant, seven gold bi-conical beads, one...

Keros island, Cyclades. The BSA’s Keros Project returned to the field in 2025, now in the form of a synergasia with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, directed by Demetris Athanasoulis (Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades), with Michael Boyd (BSA) and Evi Margaritis (Cyprus). The new, five-year collaborative project asks questions around the environmental economy of Keros through the ages, and the effects of past climate change, as well as the periods of earliest...

Knossos, Crete. Professor Rebecca Sweetman (St Andrews / BSA Director) and Dr Daniel Stewart (Leicester) report on a geophysical survery contucted in Knossos at the so-called 'Roman field' at Knossos, as part of the Roman Knossos Project (Fig. 1). The technique deployed was electrical resistivity, which measures electrical resistance to a current that is fired between 4 probes (2 stationary and 2 on the frame of the machine). The survey was designed around a series of 20 m x 20 m survey...

Kleidi Samikou. Erofili Kollia (Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia) and Birgitta Eder (Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut) report on the excavations in Zone A (yelow area, Fig. 1) at Kleidi Samikou, carried out from 19 August to 27 September 2024, as part of a synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia Samikou and ÖAI (2022-2026). The main aim of this season was to reveal the rest of the building in its north-west half part (Fig. 2). Excavation also...

A. Sokolicek (University of Salzburg) and L. Berger (University of Salzburg) report on the 2022 excavation at the site of Kolona in Aigina.  Ongoing research focuses on two diverse issues: one on the development of the Bronze Age suburb in the northeast of Kolonna, and one on the question of the transformation of the Greek sanctuary into a settlement at the end of antiquity (fig. 1). From a topographical point of view, these two very different research areas are closely...

Toumba, Serres. Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the last excavation season conducted at the Neolithic village of Toumba Serron on the eastern side of the Strymon valley of Northern Greece; a collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the British School at Athens.  The third excavation season at Toumba Serron,...

Toumba, Serres. Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the last excavation season conducted at the Neolithic village of Toumba Serron on the eastern side of the Strymon valley of Northern Greece; a collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the British School at Athens.  Excavation focused on Trench I6.21 (c. 6.2 × 6.3 m)...

Antikythera. A. Simosi (Emerita Director, Ministry of Culture) and L. Bäumer (ESAG / University of Geneva) report on the final year marked the fifth and final phase of the underwater excavation at the Antikythera Wreck (2021-2025). Wooden remains of the ship's hull discovered in 2024 were carefully recovered. These include three plank sections from the ship's planking and a fitted inlaid element (a strut) (Fig. 1). This find is considered extremely important, as it is the first...

Rescue excavations in Athens have produced exciting and significant finds during 2024–25. On Vasilissis Olgas Avenue, a large Roman-era complex was uncovered near the statue of Lord Byron, a part of the city expanded eastward under the emperor Hadrian (Fig. 1). The site includes more than 60 rooms organized around a peristyle courtyard, in a building approximately 68 m long and 11 m wide. Excavations revealed three construction phases: an initial 2nd-century AD phase built with...

Dans la ville antique de Miéza, Aggeliki Kottaridi (Éphorie des antiquités d’Émathie) a dirigé un programme de recherches sur le gymnase royal, au cours duquel elle a mené des fouilles, des nettoyages et documentation des objets, et l’étude comparative avec les objets des campagnes précédentes de fouilles, ainsi que des travaux préparatoires à l’étude de conservation et de restitution du complexe monumental et de l’anastylose de la partie occidentale du xyste, du portique...

Rafina - east Attica. Rescue excavations conducted by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Eastern Attica have revealed an important burial in a pithos, dating to the Early Bronze Age (3200–2000 BC) (Fig. 1). The pithos, measuring 1.74 m in height, with horizontal handles and characteristic corded-pattern relief decoration around the neck and handles, was placed in a pit dug into the soil of the stream's southern bank. Its mouth was sealed by a sturdy semicircular wall built...