WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD?  GREECE – Appendix A

Athens and Attica – Huge works commencing in Athens from revamping museums to new pedestrianised areas and street rejuvenation

Central Athens refurb

i – Athens to Turn Central Avenue into Pedestrian Walkway – approximately 4.6 million euros redevelopment of the central thoroughfare into a pedestrianized lane that will connect several key Athens sites, including the Temple of Olympian Zeus with Zappeion Park, the Athens National Garden, Ardittos Hill and the Panathenaic (Kallimarmaro) Stadium

ii – Excavation works that began on the 7th October 2022 as part of a project carried out by the Municipality of Athens for the regeneration of the Theatre Square area, has brought to light vital antiquities of the late Roman times

Athens New Museum Plans cause controversy

i – The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is one of the ‘five privileged museums’ that ‘would keep the revenue from tickets, sales and events – revenue that previously indirectly supported other museums with lower attendance.’ The Greek government’s intention to transform the country’s five most important museums from organic units of the Archaeological Service into legal entities under public law opens a can of worms. The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is one of the ‘five privileged museums’ that ‘would keep the revenue from tickets, sales and events – revenue that previously indirectly supported other museums with lower attendance.’

ii – David Chipperfield designs rammed-earth extension for Athens museum

iii – THE NEW NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM – All for National Archaeological Museum Athens

iv – Protests erupt outside Archaeological Museum in Athens as David Chipperfield revamp announced

 Akropolis and Museum

i – AI Images Reveal What the Parthenon Looks Like Redesigned in alternative Architectural orders

ii – MULTIMEDIA. Acropolis Museum & New App Brings Acropolis of the 5th Century BC Back to Life

iii – The Acropolis Museum website has also created a new section entitled “The Museum at School” in order to accommodate the educational needs of schools abroad and in remote Greek areas. This section includes online programs and digital applications that can make lessons about the Acropolis and the related Greek history more engaging and interactive.

iv – Parthenon fragments returned by the Vatican go on display in Greece

v – The Lost Ancient River of Athens Near the Acropolis

Piraeus and Faliro

i – Ancient Greek Cemetery Findings From Faliron Exhibited for the First Time

ii – An exhibit showcasing some of the most important findings from the salvage excavation in the Delta of Faliron Bay, south of Athens, opened at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus

Metro Stations

i – Greek Archaeological Finds on Display at New Dimotiko Theatro Metro Station

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Transported through history: Greek mosaic floor graces new subway station. They’re not visitors to a museum, however, but passengers on a new subway line that links Piraeus, the sea port that serves the capital, with its airport

ii – Archaeological Site inside Monastiraki Metro Station, Athens 

Agora

i – The Stoa of Attalos: Restored Agora of Athens Structure Is Amazing & Ancient Greek Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds Curse Against 55 People

Plato’s Academy – ‘Green museum’ to be built on ancient Plato’s Academy site & The Future of Plato’s Academy

Aristotle’s Lyceum – Goes Digital 

Kerameikos – Archaeological Site in Athens to Get Upgrade 

Salamis – Sea walls at Salamis

Thorikos – Archaeologists have discovered the remains of the earliest Iron Age house in Attica at the archaeological site of Thorikos

N Greece

i – Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum Launches New App for Digital Tours

& Museums At Thessaloniki’s New Metro Stations Will Show Off Amazing Ancient Discoveries & Thessaloniki metro finds to get very own museums

ii – Lead tablets of Dodona in the ‘Memory of the World’ of Unesco & Dodona Online Project

iii – Greece Briefly Opens Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis to Visitors & The acropolis of ancient Amphipolis continues to reveal its secrets

iv – Dion: Watch Conservationists Moving & Restoring an Exquisite Ancient Greek Mosaic – Divide the mural along a grid using drills, flat steel blades, and adhesive fabric, before sandwiching the sections between steel and wooden plates for transport to their new home. We found the moment when the protective fabric is steamed away to be a particularly harrowing thrill & The Priceless Ancient Greek Treasures of Dion

v – Greece Opens New Museum at Aigai, the Ancient Capital of Macedonian Kingdom & Diving into the world of the dead. Iordanis Dimakopoulos talks about the mound that holds the Royal Tombs of Vergina

vi – Secrets of Epirus: Discover a New Side of Greece

vii – Stunning Statue of Hercules Uncovered in Philippi, Northern Greece

viii – Thessaly Region Launches Mount Olympus Tourist Site – Video & The ancient Asclepieion at Trikala in Thessaly to Be Restored

Central Greece

i – A vaulted tomb of the Mycenean Era excavated near Amphikleia, in the region of Phthiotis, Central Greece, might hint at a yet undiscovered Mycenean settlement close to the ruins of the ancient town of Tithronium 

ii – Perachora 

Peloponnese

i – Creative rebirth of Elefsina / Eleusis & Archaeological Museum Of Elefsina Reopens To The Public & Back from underworld: Elefsina’s cultural rebirth. It was the Greek city where the ancients flocked in the hope of learning the secret of life after death.

Now Eleusis – known to Greeks as Elefsina – aims to resurrect its flagging fortunes by becoming European capital of culture next year

ii – Argos Archaeological Museum Ready to Reopen & Two New Museums to Open in Argos this Year

iii – Discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece. Innovative direct push sensing—a new technique in geoarchaeology & Ancient ruins unearthed in Elis, Greece, have been identified by archaeologists as the lost temple of Poseidon of Samikon described in the works of the great ancient Greek geographer Strabo

iv – Archaeological Site of Ancient Corinth to See Upgrade. “The masterplan’s goal is to unify all archaeological sites related to Ancient Corinth, improve their accessibility and create new spots of cultural interest” & Bronze Age Settlement Found Under Roman Bath Complex at Corinth & Was Corinth Really an Ancient City of Vice?

v – New Archaeological Museum in Sparti Gets Green Light […again….]. The project will include the restoration of the city’s former Hymofix factory – to house the museum – and retaining its industrial character & Two rare Roman floor mosaics discovered in Greece will feature in a new museum in Sparta which officially opens on November 21

v – Excavations uncover more of Greece’s ‘lost city’ of Tenea

vi – Unearthing Megalopolis: The Oldest Archaeological Site in Greece

vii – Is the Hellinikon pyramid a pyramid?

viii – Ancient Greeks Used World’s First ‘cranes’ 150 Years Earlier Than Suspected – special focus on the ruins at Isthmia and Corinth

ix – Et In Arcadia Ego: Poussin’s Painting Mystery Solved?

Crete, Santorini and other islands

i – The un-looted Minoan cemetery of Petras (2800 BC to1750 BC) is associated with burials of the elite & is life’s work of Tsipopoulou, who began digging there in the 1980s

ii – The Kore of Thera: Ancient Greek Masterpiece Brought Out of Storage The 2.48 meter tall statue made of white Naxos marble is mostly intact & Η Κόρη της Θήρας: Ένα αριστούργημα της Ελληνικής Αρχαιότητας αποκαλύπτεται & 2,700 Year Old Female Statue On Display For The First Time

iii – Stadium-like ancient Roman building found in Lissos Crete

iv – Lipari: Home of the God of the Winds

vi – Temple of Artemis in Evia, Greece Reveals More Secrets & New finds in the sanctuary of Amarysia Artemis, two kilometers east of Amarynthos, Euboea

vii – Greek Island Temple Complex Reveals ‘Countless’ Offerings Left by Ancient Worshippers. Greece’s Culture Ministry says archaeologists excavating a hilltop sanctuary on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos have discovered “countless” pottery offerings left by ancient worshippers over the centuries

viii – Archaeological Museum of Messara on Crete Opens to the Public

ix – Hundreds of Archaic artifacts, including clay figurines of female figures dedicated to the Greek goddess Demeter, were discovered at the ancient Phalasarna Acropolis in Crete

x – Mandra of Despotiko 2022: excavation and restoration works