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From July 13–15, the INSTAP Study Center welcomed Joe Wagman, a friend and longtime supporter of the Center, following his three weeks of excavation at the site of Iklaina. During his stay on Crete, Joe…

At the end of May, a team of archaeologists from the INSTAP Study Center and the Lasithi Ephorate of Antiquities traveled to Catania, Sicily, to attend ScapeCon 8, a conference on the concept and experience of…

The UISPP Commission on Archaeometry of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Inorganic Artefacts, Materials and their Technologies hosted its annual Archaeometry Conference on Stone, Glass, Ceramics and Metals at the Archaeological Museum of Chania in Crete (Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Χανίων)…

The first excavations conducted by the British School at Athens at Palaikastro in 1902 uncovered a substantial building near Chiona beach, House A. The following year their attention shifted inland to Roussolakkos where a large Minoan town was uncovered, an…

The term calcestruzzo or astraki is used by Italian researchers working at Phaistos to describe a very hard, amorphous material that partially filled many of the rooms in the first palace, ultimately providing a solid…

How to make something new out of something old? This age-old adage could well apply to the field of Egypto-Aegean studies, a field that continues to fascinate and generate scholarly debate. Yet some–among the more skeptical–might…

Symposium Program registration link below We are proud to share that the Study Center's faunal expert, Dimitra Mylona, will present a keynote lecture titled "Mediterranean Zooarchaeology and Contemporary Concerns: Ancient fisheries and Traditional Knowledge for…

The Venetian period in Crete left some of the most prominent monuments seen today, as the fortifications of Heraklion, Chania and Rethymnon. These monumental fortresses are, however, only some of the evidence of the over 450 years of…