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MON COIN Studio Celebrates Contemporary Greek Ceramics

2021-05-25 by Phil Butler

Myrto Lykopoulou ceramics

Mon Coin Studio in downtown Athens is running the “Aegean” exhibition featuring over 100 Greek ceramic artists and workshops.

Tags: Alexandra Manousakis, Antonis Palles, Apostolidis Yannis, art studio, Greece art, Greece ceramics, Greek potters, Kallia Panopoulou, Maru Meleniou, Minoan ceramics, Minoan pottery, MON COIN, Mycenaeans, pottery

Archaeologists Unearth Two More Magnificent Bronze Age Tombs at Pylos

2019-12-18 by Phil Butler

Tholos Tomb VI

Archaeologists have discovered two new monumental royal tombs dating from 3,500 years ago at the site of the ancient city of Pylos.

Tags: Agamemnon, Ancient Greece, Classics, Greece, Greek history, Griffon Warrior, Jack L. Davis, Minoan seals, Mycenaean tombs, Mycenaeans, Pylos, Sharon R. Stocker, Troy, University of Cincinnati

Nemea’s Aidonia Dig Reveals Two Unlooted Mycenaean Period Tombs

2019-09-06 by Phil Butler

Burial chamber

Archaeologists have unearthed two new unplundered chamber tombs dating from the Late Mycenaean period of the Mycenaean palaces (circa 1400-1200 BC). Systematic research being conducted at the Aidonia dig by the Antiquities Ephorate of Corinth at the Mycenaean cemetery of Aidonia in Nemea continue to reveal fascinating new knowledge. In the first of the two […]

Tags: Aidonia, Aidonia archaeology, Aidonia dig, Aidonia tombs, archaeology, chamber tombs, Mycenaean tombs, Mycenaeans, Nemea, Nemea dig, Nemea site

Prayer of Yidini: Echoes of Karfi

2018-02-11 by Phil Butler

A story from ancient Karfi, a story of how the last Minoans may have lived and believed. Karfi was the last stronghold of a magnificent culture destroyed by the gods.

Tags: crete, Karfi, Karphi, Keftiu, Lassithi, Lassithi Plateau, Mallia, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Crete, Minoan ruins, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Phaistos, Thera, Thera eruption, Tylissos, Yidini




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