All of us at the INSTAP Study Center wish to congratulate our former petrography intern, Stavroula Fouriki, on the completion of her Ph.D. entitled "Exploring the 'ceramic landscape' of Late Bronze Age Chania, Crete (c…
This lecture considers Minoan and Mycenaean dress within the broader milieu of the ancient Near East and Egypt. As valuable as precious metals, a significant commodity of trade, luxurious in design and decoration, Minoan dress rivaled…
Mathilde Van Dalen is a full-time student at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in conservation-restoration of ceramic and glass objects. She is currently in the first year of…
With gratitude... All of us at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete would like to thank Henry "Nick" Ervin for his generous donation of books to the Center's library. Nick's interest in Greece and…
Charlotte Pearson, from the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, was visiting Crete to develop collaborations with archaeological teams interested in establishing a tree-ring and radiocarbon-based chronology for Crete. Recent developments in Accelerator Mass…
The Study Center congratulates Evi Margaritis, Artemios Oikonomou, Efthymia Nikita and Thilo Rehren, the editors of this valuable guide which contains 23 chapters offering state-of-the-art information on the application of different types of environmental science…
We want to thank the staff of the Heraklion Museum for helping our members and staff on two recent projects. The first was organized by Leslie Day and involves a new study of Harriet Boyd’s…
On Sunday, 11 June 2023, the mayor of Ierapetra, Theodosios Kalantzakis, and Chrysa Sofianou, the director of the Lasithi Ephorate of Antiquities, hosted an event celebrating the reopening of the Ierapetra Collection of Antiquities (Fig…
The old customs house at Pacheia Ammos was again the site of a two-day conference, this time focusing on Chryssi Island and island archaeology of small islets around Crete (Fig. 1). The meeting started on…
“Let’s talk about the Archaeological Collection of Ierapetra” Sunday, 11 June 2023, at the Municipal Council Meeting Room at 11:30 a.m. Speakers: Chrysa Sofianou, Director of the Lasithi Ephorate Tom Brogan, Director of INSTAP Γιάννης…