Flourished in the seventeenth century BC
Akrotiri: The Buried Town of Santorini
Akrotiri on Thera was a major Bronze Age settlement connected with the Cyclades, Crete and the wider eastern Mediterranean. The volcanic eruption…
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c. 9th/8th century BC – 8th century AD
Ancient Thera on Mesa Vouno, Santorini
On the ridge of Mesa Vouno in south-east Santorini lie the ruins of Ancient Thera, the island's main city from the Archaic…
Read story →19th–20th century
Andros: An Island of Captains and Shipowners
From the nineteenth century onwards Andros produced generations of captains and shipowning families whose fleets traded far beyond the Aegean. Their wealth…
Read story →c. 2700–2300 BC
Chalandriani and the People of Bronze Age Syros
The cemetery of Chalandriani on Syros is one of the richest sources for Early Cycladic archaeology. Its tombs and grave goods reveal…
Read story →c. 2800–2300 BC
Cycladic Marble Figurines
Cycladic figurines are among the most famous objects of prehistoric Greece. Usually carved from island marble, many depict standing human figures with…
Read story →Especially 167–69 BC
Delos as a Centre of Trade
Delos was famous as the sanctuary of Apollo, but in the second and first centuries BC it also developed into a major…
Read story →Founded 1820s; peak mid-19th century
Ermoupoli: The Merchant Capital of Syros
Ermoupoli on Syros grew in the 1820s from a settlement of refugees into the busiest port of the young Greek state. Named…
Read story →13th–17th centuries
Folegandros and Sikinos: Fortified Chora Villages
On Folegandros and Sikinos the old core of each Chora is a kastro, a village whose houses form a defensive wall. These…
Read story →c. 2750–2300 BC
Keros and the Mystery of the Broken Offerings
Keros, near Naxos and Amorgos, is associated with large deposits of deliberately broken Cycladic objects. Archaeological research suggests that fragments were brought…
Read story →c. 1796/1797–1848
Manto Mavrogenous
Manto Mavrogenous became one of the best-known female figures of the Greek Revolution. She financed troops and ships, supported refugees and appealed…
Read story →Discovered 8 April 1820
Milos and the Discovery of the Venus de Milo
In April 1820 a farmer on Milos uncovered a marble statue of a woman in the ruins of the ancient city. Bought…
Read story →4th–6th century AD
Panagia Ekatontapyliani: The Early Church of Paros
In Parikia on Paros stands Panagia Ekatontapyliani, one of the oldest surviving Christian churches in Greece. Begun in the Early Christian period…
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