Alexander Sokolicek (University of Salzburg) reports on the 2025 excavation at the site of Kolona in Aigina.  During the opening of a trench inside a large stone-built structure located immediately outside and adjacent to the remains of the fortification wall that protected the extension of the Middle Bronze Age settlement (the so-called “inner suburb”), eight gold bi-conical disc-shaped pendants were found, along with one gold disc-shaped pendant, seven gold bi-conical beads, one...

Keros island, Cyclades. The BSA’s Keros Project returned to the field in 2025, now in the form of a synergasia with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, directed by Demetris Athanasoulis (Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades), with Michael Boyd (BSA) and Evi Margaritis (Cyprus). The new, five-year collaborative project asks questions around the environmental economy of Keros through the ages, and the effects of past climate change, as well as the periods of earliest...

Knossos, Crete. Professor Rebecca Sweetman (St Andrews / BSA Director) and Dr Daniel Stewart (Leicester) report on a geophysical survery contucted in Knossos at the so-called 'Roman field' at Knossos, as part of the Roman Knossos Project (Fig. 1). The technique deployed was electrical resistivity, which measures electrical resistance to a current that is fired between 4 probes (2 stationary and 2 on the frame of the machine). The survey was designed around a series of 20 m x 20 m survey...

Toumba, Serres. Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the last excavation season conducted at the Neolithic village of Toumba Serron on the eastern side of the Strymon valley of Northern Greece; a collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the British School at Athens.  Excavation focused on Trench I6.21 (c. 6.2 × 6.3 m)...

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...

Toumba, Serres. Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin (National Cheng Kung University-Taiwan) and James Taylor (York) report on the last excavation season conducted at the Neolithic village of Toumba Serron on the eastern side of the Strymon valley of Northern Greece; a collaborative research programme between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres and the British School at Athens.  The third excavation season at Toumba Serron,...

Dans la région entre Érétrie et Amarynthos, Sylvian Fachard (ESAG), Angeliki Simossi (Éphorie des antiquités d’Eubée) et Chloé Chezeaux ont mené en 2024 une quatrième campagne du projet « Eretria Amarynthos Survey Project » (ou ESAP) au cours de laquelle on a exploré les rives Est et Ouest du fleuve Sarandapotamos. Deux groupes ont prospecté la zone depuis le sanctuaire et la haute vallée de Vathia jusqu’à Kallithea et un troisième groupe s’est concentré sur le secteur...

Dans le secteur d’Asteria, à Glyphada, Dina Kaza (Société Archéologique d’Athènes) a poursuivi en 2024 la fouille systématique dans les sondages 1A et 1B. Dans le sondage 1A, elle a dégagé des cavités naturelles du rocher qui comportaient trois creusements (XI, XII et XIII) qui complètent l’image d’une installation artisanale. On note que dans le sondage 1B, qui n’a pas été fouillé en 2024, on a identifié les empierrements documentés par Curtius et Kaupert...

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...