Crete - Casteli hill. The Ephorate of Antiquities in Heraklion reports on the rescue excavations conducted in Castelli, part of the construction works for Heraklion’s New International Airport.  On the Papoura hill, NW of Castelli, a monumental circular building complex with 48m diameter was unearthed, covering an area of 1800m2 (Fig. 1). It is dated to the MMI - II periods with a destruction phase during the New Palace period. This unique minoan construction is located on the...

Knossos, Gypsades. Ioanna Serpetsidaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Herakleion), Gianna Ayala (Sheffield), Amy Bogaard (Oxford) and Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati) report on a mixed season of study and fieldwork on this collaborative project that seeks to investigate a neighbourhood within the southern suburbs of Minoan Knossos (Fig. 1). Study of stratigraphy, architecture and ceramics led by Hatzaki confirmed and refined the sequence of occupation observed in the 2014 and 2015 excavation seasons,...

Knossos, Gypsades. Ioanna Serpetsidaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Herakleion), Eleni Hatzaki (Cincinnati), Gianna Ayala (Sheffield), and Amy Bogaard (Oxford) report on the second season of this collaborative project whose overall aim is to reveal a Knossian neighbourhood by uncovering fine-grained data on consumption, the nature and role of agricultural production and broader issues surrounding the emergence, maintenance and decline of the Knossian urban elite. The primary goal of the 2015...