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...

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...

Sisi, Crete. Jan Driessen (UC Louvain) reports on the twelfth excavation campaign at Sissi, under the auspices of the EBSA and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (ID19647), which focused on the exploration of the Neopalatial Court Building uncovered at the site to clarify the various architectural sequences in the area. In the Court Building a succession of four different floors was revealed in the Central Court, with only the last Neopalatial phase consisting of a hard tarazza floor....

Crete - Itanos. Athena Tsingarida (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Didier Viviers (Université libre de Bruxelles) report on the third campaign of the five-year excavation programme at Itanos in east Crete, which focused on four sectors of the necropolis. The city wall on the south limit of the Necropolis This year's campaign brought to light an unknown section of the city wall, located in the lower part of the town (Fig. 1). It can now be assumed that the entire urban...

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...

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...