Seeing Greece with a different angle...

**neoptolemos** · July 10, 2014, 05:05 AM

Acropolis Maidens Glow Anew

Caryatid Statues, Restored, Are Stars at Athens Museum

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/ar...seum.html?_r=0

**neoptolemos** · July 11, 2014, 03:38 PM

Archaeologists Investigate a Massive Ancient Mycenaean Citadel

A team of archaeologists is surveying and excavating the remains of a major ancient Mycenaean citadel—an archaeological site featuring ruins that are turning out to be much more extensive than what meets the naked eye.

Under the leadership of Associate Professor Christofilis Maggidis of Dickinson College and the auspices of the Athens Archaeological Society, teams of specialists have been systematically surveying an imposing, island-like, flat-topped bedrock outcrop that rises 20-40 meters above a surrounding plain with a summit area stretching 49.5 acres at the northeastern edge of the Kopais basin in southeastern Greece. Known as the citadel of Glas and identified as consisting of ancient Mycenaean structures, the summit area featuring the ruins is estimated to measure ten times the size of the ancient citadel of Mycenaean Tiryns and seven times that of Mycenae, the famed city of Agamemnon of Homer's Iliad.

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue...enaean-citadel

**neoptolemos** · August 06, 2014, 04:46 PM

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Europe's Oldest Village Sought Under Greek Bay

The world's largest solar-powered boat has arrived in southern Greece to participate in an ambitious underwater survey that will seek traces of what could be one of the oldest human settlements in Europe.

The Swiss-Greek project starts next week and archaeologists hope it will shed new light on how the first farming communities spread through the continent.
Working near a major prehistoric site, they will investigate a bay aptly called Kiladha — Greek for valley. The area was once dry land and archaeologists operating off the MS Turanor PlanetSolar hope it may contain sunken remains of buildings from Neolithic times, when farming started, about 9,000 years ago.
Mission leader Julien Beck, from the University of Geneva, said Tuesday the team picked Kiladha Bay because it laps on Greece's oldest and most important Neolithic site, the Franchthi Cave...........

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...k-bay-24852900

**Stavros_Kalmpou** · August 07, 2014, 03:11 PM

Good job Neoptolemos! Some of these were unknown to me, a Greek myself

**Hetman Khmelnytsky** · August 09, 2014, 02:28 AM

The four-week vacation in Greece I had in July is awesome. The people there are very friendly and hospitable, and it was very beautiful to see. I wasn't able to see all the places I mentioned, but it was a great experience. I don't have the pics BTW because my parents have them. Here's the places I visited:

Week 1: Athens and Thessaloniki
Week 2: Crete (Heraklion and Knossos)
Week 3: Corfu and Mykonos
Week 4: Meteora, Chalkidiki and Mount Athos

BTW one of my friends is Greek, and she's gorgeous because for some reason I can't stop look back at her mesmerizing large dark eyes, even though I already have a girlfriend. She's 3/8th Epirote, and 1/8th Albanian from her father and half Pontic from her mother. Besides speaking Greek, she can also speak Russian because her mom was born and raised in Russia. Unlike many of the Pontic Greeks who left Russia for Greece after the collapse of the USSR, her transition has gone out smoothly. Her mom usually calls her by her Russian nicknames Nastya or Nastenka at home for that reason. She's my father's workfriend's daughter.