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ariel photo: by Alex Sindalar The Kommos Conservancy was a Colorado non-profit organization founded in 2007 to promote and advance the stewardship for conservation & educational development of the Kommos Archaeological site in south central Crete, Greece
‘Is the Met kouros indelibly, then – for all its composure – another Actaeon? Do we men and women not always look at his kind of manliness with an admiration subtended by pity and rage … by knowledge and foreknowledge of his death?’
T.J. Clark at the Met.
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video -Architecture in Absentia - Clairy Palyvou experiencing the Minoan ruins with eyes shut -m June 2025 one of several videos www.college-uaruhr.de/features/mul...
Museum shops should sell these.
For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
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I have got to get back to Pompeii - it's been too long and this would be amazing to see: greekreporter.com/2025/12/28/a... #italy #myth #folklore #pompeii #folkloring
Clay goblet from Early Bronze Age Troy.
Known as a depas goblet after the Homeric ‘depas amphikypellon', recent residue analysis shows these two-handled vessels were used for drinking wine some 4,250 years ago!
Istanbul Archaeological Museum
📷 by me
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tattooing within the Nile Valley, which existed from at least 3100 BCE onward into the Middle Ages. Continuities and parallels with tattoo cultures in North Africa, particularly Morocco, and Ethiopia. What about the Cycladic marble faces with probable tattoos. hyperallergic.com/uncovered-me...
For those abroad the event can be followed online
on Teams urls.fr/e3cB3_
Wilkinson presents a reflective look at empire, ownership, and cultural restitution, highlighting how the question of where the marbles belong remains as charged and symbolic as ever.
13 June 2011, I wrote about the potential to draw revenue from an entrance fee at Kommos as a means to conserve & maintain the site.
Now the Ministry allows ODAP to rent 19 sites for fine dining opportunities, "it's not the financial aspect, but the promotion" www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1285...
International Archaeology Day (IAD) is a celebration of archaeology and its contributions to society. Every October archaeological organizations around the world present archaeological programs and activities for people of all ages and interests.
Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων - Association of Greek Archaeologists Το βίντεο της εκδήλωσης είναι διαθέσιμο στο κανάλι του Συλλόγου Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων στο YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yugw...
@stratisjc.bsky.social "as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey have done."
As of mid-August, UNESCO had verified damage to 110 sites of cultural, historical and religious value to humanity, including seven archaeological sites, since the start of the war in Gaza.
Heritage is something we have in common, when it is destroyed it is like cutting the roots of a tree, a building slated for bombardment held cultural treasures, it recognized the value of the archaeological finds and worked to make the safe transfer possible www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...
D. Classics U. Cincinnati: The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia IV: The Inscribed Documents is now published and is being distributed as an eBook for free (www.lockwoodpress.com). Congratulations to the authors. Thanks Packard Humanities Institute
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The imposing Portara of Naxos: The mystery surrounding the monument that spans 26 centuries
en.protothema.gr/2025/08/14/t...
Free online lecture: What People Wrote in the Late Bronze Age
Aug 14, 2025 10:00 PM Greece
Join archaeologists D. Nakassis and H. Sugioka as they reveal how even seemingly mundane lists offer fascinating glimpses into daily life in Bronze Age communities & palaces.
getty.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It's always a bit of a thrill to see this drachm coin minted in Knossos, Crete, which depicts the goddess Hera on the obverse. Because on the reverse, below, is depicted an iconic image from the myth of the Minotaur - the labyrinth. 🏺 #ancientbluesky #ARTIC
Struck 350-220 BCE. 📸 me
The centerpiece of the renovated Archaeological Museum of Thera is the Kore of Thera, a commanding 2.48-meter-high Archaic statue carved from Naxian marble. Discovered in 2000 in Sellada, the necropolis of Ancient Thera
greekreporter.com/2025/06/23/a...
I may currently be on the last of the Fulbright grants as we’ve known them:
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Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, named after the polymath Daidalos, located in what is Pakistan today.
greekreporter.com/2025/01/28/a...
