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...

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...

À Kythnos, Alexandre Mazarakis Ainian (Université de Thessalie) et Dimitris Athanassoulis (Éphorie des antiquités des Cyclades) ont mené une nouvelle campagne de fouilles en collaboration en 2023, sur l’Acropole de la ville antique de Kythnos, située à Vryokastro. Les travaux ont porté sur la partie Nord du Plateau, occupé par un sanctuaire qui a été identifié avec certitude à un sanctuaire de Déméter et de Koré. Le bâtiment 4, constitué de deux pièces (dim. 7,50 x 5,70 m),...

Sur l’acropole de la ville antique de Kythnos, localisée à Vryokastro, Dimtris Athanassoulis (Éphorie des antiquités des Cyclades), en collaboration avec Alexandros Mazarakis-Ainian (Université de Thessalie), a mené une nouvelle campagne de fouilles en 2024, se concentrant sur le complexe domestique du plateau Sud de l’Acropole et sur des sondages complémentaires à l’extrémité Ouest du sanctuaire. Sanctuaire de Déméter et de Koré. - La partie Nord du plateau de l’acropole...

Sur le site de Terpni, Laurianne Sève (EFA) et Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorie des antiquités de Serrès), assistées de Maguelone Bastide (EFA), Adrien Delahaye (EFA), Thierry Lucas (EFA), Priscilla Ralli (EFA) et Euthymios Rizos (Ephorie des antiquités de Serrès) ont mené en septembre 2022 la première campagne de fouilles. Celle-ci a été précédée d’une prospection géophysique et d’une étude géoarchéologique qui ont respectivement eu lieu en juin et début juillet....

Antikythera. A. Simosi (Emerita Director, Ministry of Culture) and L. Bäumer (ESAG / University of Geneva) report on the fourth year of the underwater excavation at the Antikythera Wreck (2021-2025). This is a synergasia between Ephorate of Underwater Archaeology and ESAG. In a depth of 42m, in 'Area A', one of the key finds this year was a structural part of the ship's hull, which combines important shipbuilding features, including a small number of connected wooden planks...

Jon Frey (Michigan State University) reports on the first of the two seasons to survey various parts of the site at Isthmia. Survey of a small plot of land at the intersection of the road to New Corinth and the road to Hexamilia, located 0.7 km southwest of the museum revealed at least five distinct anomalies, which may represent graves at the out limits of the area excavated in 1968-1970 as the West Cemetery. More extensive survey in the area to the east of the temple temenos, in the area...

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...

Kastelli. Papoura hilltop. The Ephorate of Antiquities in Heraklion reports on the rescue excavations conducted in Kastelli, part of the construction works for Heraklion’s New International Airport.  On the Papoura hill, NW of Kastelli, a monumental circular building complex with 48m diameter was unearthed, covering an area of 1800 m2 (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...