Vasilopita 2024
On March 6, 2024, members and staff at the Center cut the traditional Vasilopita to welcome the new year with hopes for good fortune. The lucky winner of the φλουρί (gold coin – in this…
Lecture, 6 March, 2024: Towards a Post-cultural Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Greece, Dimitri Nakassis
The culture-historical labels that we attach to Bronze Age societies – Minoan and Mycenaean – do more damage than we have appreciated. Theoretically they are an inheritance of 19th century thinking that takes for granted…
Local Elementary Schools Visit the Study Center
Anyone who hasn’t visited the Center outside of the summer months may not be aware of the elementary school tours which take place here during the school year. Students from local schools experience a guided…
Lecture, 28 Feb, 2024: Ahhiyawa and Mycenaean Greece. A View from the Southeast Aegean-Southwest Coastal Anatolian Region, Salvatore Vitale, University of Pisa
This lecture discusses the Ahhiyawa question and its multifaceted implications for our understating of Aegean Late Bronze Age political trajectories. To do so, this talk uses a multidisciplinary approach that combines the analysis of textual…
Postponed! Minotage Archaeological Wine Tour on Crete
Due to a situation beyond our control, our fundraising trip this May (MINOTAGE: Archaeology Meets Cretan Wines) has been postponed. Download the full program here! Guided by archaeologist and wine writer Al Leonard, and leading…
Kentro Volume 26 Now Available!
Kentro: The Newsletter of the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete, volume 26 (Fall 2023) Is Now Available! Download Kentro Vol 26 (Fall 2023) Newsletter
Lecture: “After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations in the Aegean,” Eric Cline
Revisiting the Late Bronze Age Collapse Since 2014, when the first edition of 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed appeared, more data relevant to the potential causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and…
Session Topics for the Online Seminar “A Timeless Guide to Architecture: 101 Tips for Archaeologists” with Clairy Palyvou
A Timeless Guide to Architecture: 101 Tips for Archaeologists A Three-day Online Seminar with Clairy Palyvou November 10, 15, and 17, 12 pm ET/7 pm in Greece The seminar aims at exploring some universal and…
“Bridges of Archaeometry” at the 8th symposium of the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry in Athens
A workshop entitled “Bridges of Archaeometry” was carried out as part of the 8th symposium of the Hellenic Society of Archaeometry (HSA) in Athens. The participants presented their labs focusing on the research, the available…
Lecture: “A Sacred but Illegal Couple on Crete: The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou from the Minoan to the Roman Period,” George Papasavvas
Excavations at the Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou began in 1972 under the direction of Angeliki Lebessi and continued until 2003. The sanctuary was founded high up on a slope of the…