This week τhe Study Center welcomed four classes of high school students from Ierapetra led by Dr. Niki Saridaki, former petrography intern (2017) and library fellow (2018 and 2020) and now teaching high school. She…
We want to congratulate the staff of the Lasithi Ephorate for all their hard work. The Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos opened its doors to the public on Sunday, 23 April. The new exhibits more…
The INSTAP Study Center for East Crete congratulates Prof. Susan K. Smith, who was recently awarded the Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth Faculty Award for Distinguished International Achievement. The honor recognizes a member of the…
Carly Henkel, along with Matina Tzari and Eleanor Huffman, walked the recently inaugurated Botanical Path along the Mesonas Gorge in Kavousi, Crete to observe the Cretan flora and collect seeds for the comparative collection used…
On March 15 and 16 the director of the INSTAP SCEC delivered a pair of seminars to the Aegis Group at the Université Catholique de Louvain: Sopata, Mesorachi and the Beginning of the Bronze Age…
On March 7, the Coulson Conservation Lab organized a workshop with members of the Laboratory of Applied Spectroscopies in Cultural Heritage, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology NMR Laboratory, University…
Part of the prize awarded to Sotiria Kiorpe at the third International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 3), held in Nicosia, Cyprus in March 2022 was the…
The recent excavation campaigns (2018, 2019, 2022) conducted at Sissi under the direction of Jan Driessen have revealed the earliest remains of the settlement, which date to EM IIA (2700/2650-2200 BC). One building and possible…
On Feb 27, the director of the INSTAP SCEC and the director of the Lasithi Ephorate of Antiquties, Chrysa Sofianou, delivered a lecture at Oxford University entitled “Maritime Coastscapes and Small Worlds in East Crete…
All of us at the INSTAP Study Center wish to congratulate Dr. Despina Papadopoulou, our former library fellow, on the completion of her Ph.D. entitled "The presence and importance of serpentinite in Bronze Age Crete:…