Theotokis Theodoulou (Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities), Chryssa Sofianou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi),m Carl Knappett (Toronto) and Andrew Shapland (Oxford) report on the second year of a three-year synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lasithi, the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, and the BSA. The team investigated both the Chiona promontory, which forms the southern breakwater of Chiona beach, and the coastline just to its southeast, East...

Jim  Crow (Edinburgh) and Mark Jackson (Mark Jsckson) report on a synergasia between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades and the British School at Athens, at Kato Choria, Naxos. Following several seasons of regional field survey and documentation of field structures in the vicinity of Apalirou Kastro in south Naxos (Fig. 1), the aim of the 2022 season was to initiate excavation of selected structures in the lower settlement of Kato Choria. To this end, a team of 10...

Anastasia Christophilopoulou (Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge), Michael Loy (Cambridge), Naoíse Mac Sweeney (Vienna)  report on the second season of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project five-year research programme. The season involved intensive pedestrian field survey in the Marathokampos basin of the island’s southwest, with an aim of fully documenting the spatial extent of two known sites, and locating any smaller sites in their hinterland: the first ‘Agios...

Mt Lykaion. Anna Karapanagiotou (National Archaeological Museum),  David Gilman Romano and Mary E. Voyatzis (ASCSA / Arizona), and Dr Konstantinos Kissas (Ephorate of Antiquities of Arkadia), report on the fifth of its five-year series of excavation seasons for the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, from June 12 to Aust 1, 2022. The team workd at the southern peak of the mountain excavating the altar of Zeus and in the lower sanctuary, on the excavation of several buildings...

Field and geoarchaeological survey in Megalopolis.  The Ephorate of the Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, under the management of Dr E. Panagopoulou-Karambela (EPS), Dr P. Karkana (ASCSA) and Prof. K. Harvati (University of Tübingen), report the results of the five-year field and geoarchaeological survey in Megalopolis in Arcadia.  The finds from the five, newly discovered places in the lignite mines of Megalopolis...

Georgios Anastasakis and Georgios Lyras, (National Kapodistrian University of Athens) report on work carried out at Katharo Plateau on the Dikti mountain to the east of Crete in July 2023 (ID 18571; 11675). Fossils of 10 dwarf hippopotamuses were found. These animals were endemic to Crete and their fossils date back to 200,000 - 300,000 years ago. The pygmy hippopotamus, or pygmy hippo, is a small member of the hippopotamid family. Fossils of other endemic animals have been found...

Irini Skiadaresi (Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus and Islands) reports on excavations at 8 Diamanti Street, in Neo Phaleron. An ongoing rescue excavation has so far yielded findings dated from the Classical to the late Roman times (fig.1). The findings include one stone-built enclosure from Roman times, as inferred from the excavated pottery. In addition, excavation revealed three wells, two from the Roman period and one dated from the Classical to the Hellenistic times, based on the...

Amygdalia Andreou reports on a collaboration between the Universities of Ioannina and Thessaly, under the direction of Alexandra Alexandridou and Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, and the Ephorate of of Antiquities of Piraeus & Islands. This is the third of a 5-year systematic excavation project at the low hill of Lathouriza, in the region of Vari in Attica (fig.30). The project aims at reexamining and excavating the place, which was excavated in the summer of 1939, by the...