The fourth season of excavations at the Karfi site in the Lasithi Mountains, Crete, is coming to an end. This year we worked in three sectors of this highest situated (approx. 1140 m above sea level) and the largest mountainous defensible settlement in Crete, representing the period of collapse of the previous Minoan-Mycenaean settlement pattern […]
On behalf of the organisers, we are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the ninth edition of the Aegean ScapeCon Symposium, addressed to PhD students and early-career researchers. The symposium will take place at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, 27-28 May 2027. We warmly invite interested researchers to participate in this exceptional event […]
The third and final season of the Thelpousa Agora Project in Arcadia, Peloponnese, has begun. This year’s work is planned as a study season at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Arcadia in Tripoli. Its aim is to prepare the material collected during the previous seasons for publication. The first members of the research team taking […]
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On 15 June 2026, the fourth and final excavation season began at the Mycenaean site of Pefkakia in Magnesia. The site is located approximately 1.5 km south of the modern city of Volos, on the Pagasetic Gulf in Thessaly. The project is being carried out as a collaboration between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia […]
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The ‘Spring School in Classical Art History and Archaeology’, organised by the Faculty of Art Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in collaboration with the British School at Athens and the Polish Archaeological Institute in Athens, took place in Crete from 19 to 26 April 2026. Ten students from the Institute of Art History at […]
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On 10 June 2026, the 5th Annual Meeting of the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA) for the year 2025 was held at l’École française d’Athènes. The meeting was chaired by the Head of the Academic Board of PAIA, Prof. Kazimierz Lewartowski. Prof. Janusz Czebreszuk, Director of PAIA, presented a report on the Institute’s activities […]
The challenges faced by women on the path to academic success were discussed at the headquarters of the Research Centre in Cyprus of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, in Paphos. The event, organised in cooperation with the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA), featured Beata Kukiel-Vraila, author of the book Archaeology Without […]
On Wednesday, 22 April 2026, the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens hosted Prof. Andrzej Pelisiak and Dr Maciej Dębiec from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Rzeszów who held a lecture, entitled Exploring Neolithic Landscapes of Aegean Thrace. The Case of the Paradimi Region and Petrota Vrahos Hill. The lecture presented the results of recent archaeological […]
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