Projet "Chronika" : Les Notices des BCH 105, 104, 103, 102, 101, 100, 99, 98 et 97 sont à présent disponibles.
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Outil indispensable pour les chercheurs de toutes disciplines qui souhaitent s'informer des dernières découvertes archéologiques en Grèce et à Chypre, la Chronique des fouilles en ligne/Archaeology in Greece Online est une base de données richement illustrée, disposant d'un outil cartographique pour localiser les opérations de terrain.
In Aegina Kolonna, Lydia Berger and Alexander Sokolicek (Department of Classics, University of Salzburg) report on the 2023 and 2024 excavation seasons, during which research focused on the continuation of the investigation of the Middle to Late Bronze Age fortifications and the settlement in the Northeast of Kolonna (area A1 and A2 on fig. 1) as well as on the small Byzantine church and the adjacent area outside the Late Roman/Byzantine fortification wall in the east (area A3 on fig....
Mani Peninsula, Lakonia. Chelsea Gardner (Acadia University) and William Parkinson (University of Illinois) report the results of a field season conducted in 2025, in Porto Kagio Bay in Mani Peninsula, Lakonia, under the auspicies of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Laconia and the Canadian Institute in Greece (Fig. 1). The method of intensive surfuce survey allowed for flexible and efficient collection in mountainous and heavily vegetated terrain. The main priority was to enable...
Sisi, Crete. Jan Driessen (UC Louvain) reports on excavations at Sissi, under the auspices of the EBSA and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
Excavation continued in the south wing, where a series of differently oriented spaces (16.110 to 16.113) were found at a lower level beneath later constructions (Fig. 1), along with several Middle Minoan IIB ceramic deposits. In the northeast wing (Fig. 2), excavations further explored the eastern parts...
Crete - Itanos. Athena Tsingarida (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Didier Viviers (Université libre de Bruxelles) report on the fourth campaign of the five-year excavation programme at Itanos in east Crete, which focused on four sectors of the necropolis.
Excavations were conducted in four large sectors previously investigated during earlier campaigns.
At the foot of the hill, in the first sector...
À Andros, une équipe dirigée par Lydia Palaiokrassa et Giorgos Pallis (Université d’Athènes) a poursuivi en 2023 les recherches sur l’agora antique de Palaiopolis. On a effectué des nettoyages et mené des fouilles sur les deux terrasses sur lesquelles s’étend l’agora : sur le secteur du portique Γ, daté de la première moitié du IIe s. av. J.-C. (fig. 1), et sur l’extérieur de l’abside de la basilique protobyzantine datée du troisième quart du Ve s. apr. J.-C....
À Kolona, la campagne de 2005, menée sous la direction de F. Felten (université de Salzbourg), a porté sur deux secteurs : le complexe Ouest dit « Attaleion » et la colline Sud. 1) Complexe Ouest, dit « Attaleion ». La poursuite des fouilles dans ce complexe, fouillé à l’origine par A. Furtwängler et G. Welter, avait pour objectif d’élucider son histoire architecturale et sa datation. Dans une pièce (Est) du bâtiment Sud on a démonté le pavement du sol hellénistique pour...
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...
Koulinari (Mylona property). E. Papastavrou (ΚΣτ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a rock-cut underground tomb with two chambers entered via a shaft (tomb I), plus five cists graves (II-VI). All had been robbed. Only cist grave V preserved a little bone, three lekythoi, an alabastron, and a bronze ring of the first half of the fifth century...
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...