Aigina - Hellanion Oros. Stella Chrysoulaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and islands) and Tobias Krapf (ESAG), Leonidas Bokotopoulos – Sophia Michalopoulou – Jérôme André (University of Lausanne), report on the fifth season of a five-year project on Hellanion Oros in Aigina, a synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and islands and ESAG. The research took place at the area north of the chapel of the Ascension, where buildings belong to the...

Ewdoksia Papuci-Wladyka (PAIA) reports on the first excavation season of a three-year project (2024-2026) conducted by a Polish-German-Greek research team, under the auspices of the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens in Thelpousa, Arcadia, Greece. Thelpousa was an Arcadian polis located approxi- mately 25 km east of ancient Olympia in the lower Ladon valley north of the modern village of Toumbitsi (Fig. 1). The origins of Thelpousa, situated on the left bank of the river, date...

Karfi - Lasithi, Crete. Krzysztof Nowicki and Saro Wallace from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw report on the continuation of excavations at Karfi in Lasithi, under the auspices of the Polist Archaeological Institute at Athens. The 2024 excavation at Karfi, Lasithi, Crete, focused on three areas (A, B and MG1), investigating the Late Minoan IIIC settlement (c. 1200–1050 BC), earlier Middle Minoan activity (c. 1800–1700 BC), and evidence of later reuse. (Fig. 1) In Area A,...

Au Sud de la commune de Moustheni, Stavroula Dadaki (Éphorie des antiquités de Kavala), Patrik Klingborg et Georgia Galani (Swedish Institute at Athens) ont mené en 2025 la deuxième campagne de fouilles programmées et en collaboration, à Pergamos antique dans le cadre du programme de recherches Ancient Pergamos Project (fig. 1). La fouille a porté sur deux secteurs à l’intérieur de la fortification Sud du rempart de la ville. On a poursuivi les recherches dans le premier...

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...

Aigina - Hellanion Oros. Stella Chrysoulaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and islands) and Tobias Krapf (ESAG), Leonidas Bokotopoulos – Sophia Michalopoulou – Jérôme André (University of Lausanne), report on the fourth season of a five-year project on Hellanion Oros in Aigina, a synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and islands and ESAG. The aim in 2024 was to integrate the site at the summit of Mount...

À Doriskos (fig. 1), Anca Dan (CNRS-ENS Paris), Chryssa Karadima (Éphorie des antiquités du Rhodope) et Domna Terzopoulou (Éphorie des antiquités de l’Hèbre, Alexandroupoli) ont co-dirigé en 2025 une nouvelle mission de terrain. Les prospections géophysiques ont été effectuées par Ercan Erkul et Wolfgang Rabbel (Université de Kiel, Excellece Cluster Roots) avec la participation de leurs étudiants Jan-Daniel Beese, Simon Fischer, Johannes Gehrig, Karoline Spiess et Anna Ziel. Les...

Au Sud du Péloponnèse, Adrien Delahaye (Université de Montpellier/EFA), Nicola Nenci (Université de Perugia), Lionel Fadin et Brieuc Guillaume (EFA) ont mené en 2025 une campagne de relevé des traces de routes à guide-roues visibles à plusieurs endroits sur la plage de Pounta et en direction de Viglaphia, marquant le départ d’une route carrossable partant vraisemblablement d’un port antique de la péninsule du Cap Malée (fig. 1-2). Ces traces avaient déjà été signalées par...

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...

Corinthia - Chiliomodi - Ancient Tenea. Elena Korka (Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Ministry of Culture) reports on the 2025 excavation season at Chiliomodi. In October 2025, the work of the systematic excavation of ancient Tenea was completed. Around Funerary Monument III (Fig. 1), an extensive complex was uncovered, in use from the Archaic down to the Roman period. The focal point of the complex in the Archaic period is a rectangular subterranean...