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Monakhov, Sergey, Elena Kuznetsova, and Nataliya Churekova. "Amphorae Collection of the Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Preserve named after E.D. Felitsyn." Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik, no. 2 (December 2022): 142–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2022.2.9.
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The Krasnodar Museum presents one of the largest amphora collections in the world. Materials from the Maeotian necropolises of the Region near the farms of Prikubanskiy, Lenin, the village of Starokorsunskaya, etc. are stored here. Almost half of the collection consists of vessels from the excavations of the Prikubansky necropolis – 324 amphorae and 101 complexes. Based on the analysis of imports (amphorae and black-glazed pottery) from the burials of this necropolis, we can talk about almost a twofold reduction in the supply of products to the settlement after the middle of the 4th century BC, with a tendency to further decline by the beginning of the 3rd century BC. The materials of the the Prikubanskiynecropolis are characterized by the absence of amphorae of Chios and Peparethos. The containers of these large production centers are represented by a minimum number in the second part of the Krasnodar collection, which includes 349 vessels originating from excavations at least 30 other archaeological sites of the Kuban Region. The existing individual Chios amphorae originate mainly from excavations on the Taman Peninsula. The article discusses several fragmented Chios amphorae with englyphic stamps “A”. At the same time, the Krasnodar collection contains a large number of amphorae of Hellenistic time (in particular Rhodes and the so-called “Prikubanskiy” series), which in other museums are represented by single copies. At the same time, stamped Rhodian vessels from Kuban Region give new, previously unknown combinations of names of eponyms and fabricants.
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LIRITZIS, Ioannis, Nikos ZACHARIAS, Ioulia PAPAGEORGIOU, Anthoula TSAROUCHA, and Eleni PALAMARA. "Characterisation and analyses of museum objects using pXRF: An application from the Delphi Museum, Greece." STUDIA ANTIQUA ET ARCHAEOLOGICA 24, no. 1 (2018): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/saa-2018-24-1-2.
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Twenty-six objects from the Delphi archaeological Museum, including nearby museum premises, have been analysed by portable XRF. The aim was their characterization, provenance and archaeological interpretations. Twenty-one miniature Corinthian ceramic vases, a bronze and a ceramic pyxis bearing powder, four pigments on ceramics and six elegant glass vases, were non-destructively measured in situ. The ceramic analysis seems to form one cluster with similar chemical traits. The clay is calcareous with relatively high iron and titanium contents. Slip painted surface was due to increased MgO and Fe2O3. Four elegant glass vases were statistically compared to about 270 published data of similar period for provenance study and investigating the mineral agents for colouring glass. In fact the clustering analysis forms one of the major analytical groups containing the Delphi samples and also samples from Rhodes and Satricum. Of the major findings is the highly toxic mercury as cinnabar (HgS), a red pigment very commonly used since antiquity, mixed with PbO white lead in face powders. Particular elemental variations in all groups are discussed. Multiple statistical analysis was used, such as, various hierarchical cluster versions, PCA, bi-plots. The case study provides a practical aid to archaeological interpretation and emphasizes the valuable use of portable XRF in museum studies on material culture ranging from various types and periods.
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Morgan, Catherine. "2013–2014 — a view from Greece." Archaeological Reports 60 (November 2014): 4–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0570608414000027.
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While much of the news reported from Greece continues to focus on the harsh realities of continuing financial crisis, it is a pleasure to publicize the strength and diversity of archaeological research, and the major developments which continue to make Greece's sites and museums ever more attractive and accessible to visitors whatever their interests. This has been an exciting year, not least thanks to the Greek presidency of the Council of the European Union which has put culture in all forms under the spotlight (the exhibition Greece's Europe. Colonies and Coinage from the Alpha Bank Collection at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki was but one of the commemorative events held in Greece). Further new discoveries through the summer of 2014 continue to tantalize, as we will observe presently.
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Leventi, Iphigeneia. "MARBLE SCULPTURES FROM PHTHIOTIS IN THE LAMIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM." Annual of the British School at Athens 108 (November 2013): 275–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245413000099.
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Marble statuettes, now in the Lamia Archaeological Museum, that date to the Classical and above all the Hellenistic periods, and a Hellenistic votive relief depicting Herakles are presented here. This study investigates the relations between the local workshop in central Greece which produced them and the major Classical and Hellenistic sculptural centres of Athens and of the Aegean islands, Asia Minor and the kingdoms of the Greek East generally. A marble statuette of a goddess which may represent Artemis from Melitaia, and a marble statuette of a seated girl of unknown provenance are dated to the Classical period. The subjects portrayed in the Late Hellenistic material show a typical repertory, marble statuettes of Aphrodite or Aphrodite-like figures, and a statuary group of Eros and Psyche in marble, unusual for this period. The ways in which the local sculptors of the Late Hellenistic period in the area of modern Phthiotis adopted the typological and stylistic trends current in the great cosmopolitan centres are a major concern here. In the Hellenistic period, the production of marble statuettes for making offerings at public and domestic sanctuaries and for decorating opulent villas was in vogue, and a common formal language was created especially for small-scale sculpture in the eastern Mediterranean and the new art markets of Italy. The vehicles by which these artistic influences were transmitted to the sculptural production of central Greece will also be investigated.
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Kravchenko, Inna. "Archaeological Antiquities of Church and Archaeological Museum at Kyiv Theological Academy (1872-1919)." Eminak, no. 2(42) (August 15, 2023): 252–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.33782/eminak2023.2(42).651.
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The purpose of the research paper is to study the formation history of the collection of archaeological antiquities of the Church and Archaeological Museum at Kyiv Theological Academy, the ways of their acquisition by the Museum, the content of the archaeological collections, the personalities of the collectors, and the historical fate of the holdings.
Scientific novelty. The history of the formation and content of the collections of archaeological antiquities is separated from the general issue of the activities of the Church and Archaeological Society and the Museum at Kyiv Theological Academy.
Conclusions. The Church and Archaeological Museum at Kyiv Theological Academy, founded in 1872, was the largest and most significant in the territory of modern Ukraine in terms of the number, variety, and value of the objects stored. Despite its initial focus on collecting mainly church objects, during the existence of the Museum, its collection accumulated a lot of other archaeological and historical artifacts. Accumulation of antiquities in the Museum contributed to their preservation and scientific study.
Among the archaeological antiquities of the Museum were objects of the Stone, Copper, and Bronze Ages, ancient Egyptian, antique Greek and Rome, Greek colonies of the Northern Black Sea region, Hellenistic, Scythian, Sarmatian, Gothic, Slavic, Byzantine, Kyivan Rus, Lithuanian era, period of 1569-1795, and the items belonged to the Cossacks of the 18th century, etc.
Objects came from the territory of modern Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, etc. Mainly, there were artifacts from excavations and accidental finds. Collections were given to the Museum by private individuals. Among them, the greatest contribution to the enriching of holdings belonged to Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin), Bishop Porfyrii (Uspenskyi), M.O. Leopardov, V.Z. Zavitnevich, V.I. Hoshkevich, numerous donators from the clergy, teachers, and archeology enthusiasts. The greatest contribution to the preservation, research, scientific description, and publication of the Museum’s collections belonged to M.I. Petrov.
Disasters of the 20th century (two world wars, the revolutions of 1917, and the dominance of atheistic ideology in the USSR) negatively affected the preservation of the rich collections of the Church and Archaeological Museum at Kyiv Theological Academy. Many museum objects disappeared, were stolen, or were simply destroyed; the Museum itself also ceased to exist. However, part of the collections survived, and some items from them are still stored in some Kyiv museums.
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Kubala, Agata. "A Greek Fibula in the Collection of the Archaeological Museum in Wrocław." Studies in Ancient Art and Civilisation 19 (December 30, 2015): 129–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/saac.19.2015.19.07.
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In the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Wrocław is a Greek fibula, which was donated by Wilhelm Grempler, a Wrocław doctor and researcher of antiquity well-known for his contribution to Silesian archaeology. It belongs to the ‘millwheel’ fibula group, which is characterised by the distinctive decoration of its bows. Fibulae of this type have been found in modern Bulgaria, Macedonia and northern and central Greece, although they seem not to have reached its south. Observable differences in the shapes of the decorative elements of these fibulae are of a regional nature and allow two varieties to be identified within the type: North Balkan and Greek. The best analogies for the Wrocław ‘millwheel’ fibula can be found in objects of the same type found at Halai in central Greece, which can be dated to the mid-5th century BC.
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Stamatopoulou, Maria. "Introduction & overview." Archaeological Reports 64 (November 2018): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0570608418000170.
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This brief introduction presents the structure and contents of the current issue of Archaeology in Greece, linking the various contributions to events or very recent discoveries that were reported in the press in the period immediately before the completion of this issue. It also offers an overview (not meant to be exhaustive) of archaeological activity in Greece over the past 12 months, focusing on major exhibitions and new museum openings, important academic conferences and recent publications.
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Nikolakopoulou, Vasiliki, Petros Printezis, Vassilis Maniatis, Dimitris Kontizas, Spyros Vosinakis, Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou, and Panayiotis Koutsabasis. "Conveying Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museums with Interactive Storytelling and Projection Mapping: The Case of the Mastic Villages." Heritage 5, no. 2 (May 18, 2022): 1024–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage5020056.
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Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR), as implemented with projection mapping, is part of mixed-reality technology with numerous applications in the cultural domain. In museums, interactive projection mapping has been exploited to superimpose virtual content on exhibited artefacts, offering users various hybrid ways to interact with the artefacts’ physical and digital content. For this reason, it has been widely used in the context of architectural heritage to promote culture and raise awareness about historical buildings or landscapes by visualizing significant elements they convey. This paper presents the design, development, and iterative user evaluation of an interactive projection mapping installation for the Mastic Museum on Chios island in Greece that promotes UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage. The installation affords tangible interaction to activate the video projections presented in a storytelling manner on a 3D-printed scale model of a representative historic settlement exhibited inside the museum. The concept of this installation aims to connect the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of mastic and the related villages with narration and vivid illustrations. Three evaluation phases took place during the development at the lab and the museum, informing UX, learning, and design considerations.
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Russell, Ben. "Stone quarrying in Greece: ten years of research." Archaeological Reports 63 (November 2017): 77–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0570608418000078.
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It has been ten years since the publication of Lorenzo Lazzarini's monumental volume on the quarrying, use and properties of the coloured marbles of Greece: Poikiloi Lithoi, Versiculores Maculae: I Marmi Colorati della Grecia Antica (Lazzarini 2007). The first study since Angelina Dworakowska's Quarries in Ancient Greece (Dworakowska 1975) to attempt a large-scale examination of quarrying across Greece, Lazzarini's approach is fundamentally an archaeometric one. Analysis of the evidence for quarrying in different regions is set alongside minero-petrographic and geochemical analyses of the materials extracted. Lazzarini focuses on 12 lithotypes: marmor lacedaemonium from Laconia, variously referred to as serpentino and porfido verde antico; three stone types from the Mani peninsula: rosso antico tenario, nero antico tenario and cipollino tenario; from Chios, the famous marmor chium or portasanta, breccia di Aleppo and nero antico chiota; the breccia di settebasi and semesanto of Skyros; the intensively exploited marmor carystium or cipollino verde, as well as the marmor chalcidicum or fior di pesco from Euboea; and from central and northern Greece, marmor thessalicum or verde antico and the breccia policroma della Vittoria. For each of these lithotypes, Lazzarini considers the evidence for their use and distribution, illustrated with a distribution map in each case, and provides a thorough overview of what is known about their quarries. Archaeological and geological approaches are here combined, and this is a hallmark of much recent work on the question of quarrying and stone use through Greek history.
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Snodgrass, Anthony. "Soft targets and no-win dilemmas: response to Dimitris Plantzos." Antiquity 85, no. 328 (May 2011): 629–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068022.
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Most of the opposition directed at the new AcropolisMuseum (herafter NAM), both beforeand since its opening in June 2009, has turned out to be politically motivated, mainly from the Left in Greece, mainly from the Right in Britain (the Daily Telegraph called it 'a hideous visitor centre in modern Athens'before it was even built [Wilson 2006]). Dimitris Plantzos comes at the museum from a different angle, but he too is determinedly on the attack. A first sign of this is his total silence about the protection and exhibition of the archaeological site underlying the museum, one of its major positive (and innovatory) features.
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Bouras, Vasilis, Dimitris Spiliotopoulos, Dionisis Margaris, Costas Vassilakis, Konstantinos Kotis, Angeliki Antoniou, George Lepouras, Manolis Wallace, and Vassilis Poulopoulos. "Chatbots for Cultural Venues: A Topic-Based Approach." Algorithms 16, no. 7 (July 14, 2023): 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/a16070339.
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Digital assistants—such as chatbots—facilitate the interaction between persons and machines and are increasingly used in web pages of enterprises and organizations. This paper presents a methodology for the creation of chatbots that offer access to museum information. The paper introduces an information model that is offered through the chatbot, which subsequently maps the museum’s modeled information to structures of DialogFlow, Google’s chatbot engine. Means for automating the chatbot generation process are also presented. The evaluation of the methodology is illustrated through the application of a real case, wherein we developed a chatbot for the Archaeological Museum of Tripolis, Greece.
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Theodosiou, Ir, E. Athanassouli, N. Epitropou, Z. Janikian, G. Kossiaris, and K. Michail. "GEOTRAILS IN GREECE." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 43, no. 2 (January 23, 2017): 939. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11259.
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Planning of walking and motoring geotrails around the geosites, in combination with other attractions of biotic, archaeological and cultural interest, as well as creation of interpretative, awareness printed material relevant to the geosites is one of the objectives of the project “Designation of geosites – geoparks, contribution to sustainable development”. It is a project of the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration (IGME), funded from the 3rd community support framework program. Furthermore, this printed material which is also available in digital form aided by the project’s data base and the geographic information system is used to develop an application for display at the IGME museum, exploiting the potential of multimedia and interactive technologies (e.g. touch screens), in a way that will attract the interest of the visitor on the geological history and at the time entertain him. Making of the right interpretive products will result in the designation of the geological heritage and the establishment of new forms of alternative tourism, a modern tourist trend which will help in the social and economic development of each region. Designation of geosites will also have a positive impact on the awareness and knowledge of geological history at all levels of education, in our country as well as internationally
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Mouratidou, Th, and C. Samara. "PM2.5 and associated ionic component concentrations inside the archaeological museum of Thessaloniki, N. Greece." Atmospheric Environment 38, no. 27 (September 2004): 4593–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.04.034.
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Loupa, Glykeria, Georgios Dabanlis, Georgia Resta, Evangelia Kostenidou, and Spyridon Rapsomanikis. "Indoor Microclimatic Conditions and Air Pollutant Concentrations in the Archaeological Museum of Abdera, Greece." Aerobiology 2, no. 2 (April 30, 2024): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerobiology2020003.
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Indoor microclimate conditions and air pollutant concentrations (O3, TVOC, CO, CO2, and particulate matter mass concentrations in six size bins) were measured in the Greek Archaeological Museum of Abdera, which houses priceless works of art from the birthplace of the ancient philosopher Democritus. The monitoring campaign took place during the spring and summer months, when there were the greatest number of visitors. In the exhibition rooms, daily variations in relative humidity ranged from 4% to 10%, and daily variations in air temperature ranged from 0.9 °C to 2.6 °C. These uncontrolled changes may endanger the housed antiquities. The microclimate in the storage rooms varied substantially less than in the exhibition halls due to dehumidifiers and the lack of visitors. Concerning air pollution, indoor O3 concentrations were higher than the recommended limit values for the conservation of artwork. Even more worrisome are particulate matter mass concentrations above the air quality guidelines. Despite the fact that the building is well insulated and that only artificial lighting is used in the exhibition halls, it is difficult to achieve adequate conditions for the protection of the works of art.
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Ovadiah, Ruth, and Asher Ovadiah. "A Marble Head of Ares in the Old Archaeological Museum of Chalkis in Euboea, Greece." Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua 39, no. 1 (March 23, 2021): 295–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/geri.74793.
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This study engages with a marble head of Ares, currently on exhibition at the Old Archaeological Museum of Chalkis in Euboea, Greece. The head has been executed according to the finest tradition of Classical-Hellenistic Greek sculpture, creating a figure with theatrical and pathetic expressions, recalling the Skopadic trend. The lack of pupils may indicate that the head of the god is a pre-Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek original from the 4th-2nd centuries BCE.
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Özkaya, Belgin Turan. "The British Museum,Müze-i Hümâyunand the Travelling “Greek ideal” in the Nineteenth Century." New Perspectives on Turkey 50 (2014): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600006567.
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AbstractIn standard architectural history surveys, the British Museum is portrayed as an example of nineteenth-century “neoclassicism”, or the “Greek revival.” Usually cited as among the motive factors in this revival are the writings about European travels and archaeological explorations in the then Ottoman lands of ancient Greece, as well as a general interest in Hellenic culture. Yet the cultural and architectural appropriation of the Hellenic is not analyzed in relation to the possible ties and tensions between European archaeological culture and the Ottoman response to antiquity. This paper is an attempt to align the British Museum’s “Arcadia in Bloomsbury” with the Ottoman Imperial Museum,Müze-i Hümâyun, in İstanbul, and to look at them afresh beyond the usual discourse of style. The paper analyzes the “neo-Grecian” “Temple of Arts and Sciences” in London, supposedly inspired by those in Priene and Teos in the Ottoman Empire, and theMüze-i Hümâyun, whose façade allegedly replicates theSarcophagus of the Mourning Women, transported to the museum from Sidon in Lebanon by Ottoman officials, understanding them as charged manifestations of “correspondence” or “transfer” within the web of circulating ideas, models, ancient remains, travellers, and architects of the nineteenth century.
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PALAVESTRA, ALEKSANDAR. "TWO COLLECTIONS AND TWO GREEK OBSESSIONS." ISTRAŽIVANJA, Јournal of Historical Researches, no. 31 (November 12, 2020): 197–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.19090/i.2020.31.197-216.
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It has become a truism that museum exhibitions and interpretations are influenced by wider theoretical concepts and the author’s personal ideas. Winckelmann’s legacy is present in most of the European museums. Sometimes the concepts emphasizing Greece are perpetuated over decades, in spite of the fact that new archaeological interpretations contradict this neo-Classicist reading. Two examples will be offered to illustrate this situation. The first is the case of the Neolithic site of Vinča near Belgrade, excavated during several campaigns from 1908 to 1934 by Miloje Vasić. At the time he started researching the site, Vasić was the director of the National Museum in Belgrade and a professor of archaeology at the university. He argued that Vinča was a settlement of the Aegean colonists and an emanation of the Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age spirit. From 1934 on, he even identified Vinča as an Ionian colony from the sixth century B.C.E. After the First World War, Vasić ceased being the director of the museum and focused on the work at the university. At the same time, his Vinča interpretation was met with sharp criticism both in the Serbian and international archaeological communities and the site was firmly dated as Neolithic. Faced with criticism, even from the National Museum Belgrade, in 1929 Vasić established the University Archaeological Collection, where he placed material from the post-war excavations at Vinča and continued exhibiting his philhellenic interpretation. The second case to be presented is what is referred to as the princely grave from Novi Pazar, one of the most Iron Age important finds in the Central Balkans. From the middle of the twentieth century almost to the present day, a thesis concerning the Greek-Illyrian treasures has been perpetuated, although the new interpretations have clearly shown that both parts of this title are problematic.
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Sakellariadi, Anastasia. "Public Archaeology in Greece: A Review of the Current State of the Field." Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology 6 (February 11, 2022): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp45-65.
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As far as archaeology deals with the past in the present, it is already a public endeavour; especially so in southern Europe, where contemporary identities are drawn from ancient cultures, such as the Greek and Roman. In Greece, the political role of the discipline marked antiquities as goods of the people and archaeology as a highly popular discourse. This led to the creation of a state mechanism to manage antiquities for the benefit, but ironically at the exclusion, of the people, in an authoritative top-down approach. In defiance, various actors participate in the public discourse about the past, cultural heritage and its roles today.
This paper will review the state of the field by bringing together research in public archaeology in Greece but also non-academic initiatives, such as NGOs and citizen movements. It is argued that public engagement, primarily through museum exhibitions - the most formal and controlled interface between archaeology and non-archaeologists – and cultural events in archaeological sites, is the primary aspect of public archaeology. While public archaeological discourse is overabundant and expansive though, critical research and analysis are lagging and conventional narratives remain broadly unchallenged.
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Ma, Y., W. Li, and N. An. "RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL EXHIBITION OF CULTURAL RELICS FOR CROSS-CULTURE COMMUNICATION: CASE STUDY ON CHINA-GREECE COOPERATION ON TERRACOTTA WARRIORS." ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences X-M-1-2023 (June 23, 2023): 187–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-x-m-1-2023-187-2023.
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Abstract. With epidemics blocking offline interactions, it is difficult to organise events such as tours of major heritage sites and outbound exhibitions of cultural relics, and new paths need to be expanded for the presentation of cultural heritage and intercultural education efforts. With the booming development of digital technology, the integration of online virtual presentation and interactive technology and the innovative design of 3D scenes provide new solutions for the intercultural communication of these precious and immovable cultural relics (e.g. archaeological sites), etc. This project is based on the Sino-Greek cooperation around the online presentation of heritage items such as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of China and the precious collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Greece, in order to present and On the basis of communicating the value of heritage and the connection between Chinese and Greek civilisations, the project explores the development of a virtual space that integrates the Terracotta Warriors and Horses pits, the interactive virtual display of cultural relics, and the display of the achievements of scientific and technological conservation of cultural relics, so as to realise the cross-cultural exchange between China and Greece and fulfil the educational function of heritage.
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Plantzos, Dimitris. "Behold the raking geison: the new Acropolis Museum and its context-free archaeologies." Antiquity 85, no. 328 (May 2011): 613–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068009.
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In December 1834 Athens became the capital city of the newly founded Hellenic Kingdom. King Otto, the Bavarian prince whose political and cultural initiative shaped much of what modern Greece is today, sought to design the new city inspired by the heavily idealised model of Classical Hellas (see Bastea 2000). The emerging capital was from the outset conceived as aheterotopiaof Hellenism, a Foucauldian 'other space' devoted to Western Classicism in view of the Classical ruins it preserved. The Acropolis became, naturally, the focal point of this effort. At the same time, however, and as Greek nationalist strategies were beginning to unfold, Classical antiquity became a disputedtopos,a cultural identity of sorts contested between Greece on the one hand and the 'Western world' on the other (see Yalouri 2001: 77–100). Archaeological sites thus became disputed spaces, claimed by various interested parties of national or supra-national authority wishing to impose their own views on how they should be managed — and to what ends (Loukaki 2008). The Acropolis was duly cleansed from any non-Classical antiquities and began to be constructed as an authentic Classical space, anationalproject still in progress. As Artemis Leontis has argued in her discussion of Greece as a heterotopic 'culture of ruins', the Acropolis of Athens, now repossessed by architectural renovation and scholarly interest, functions'as a symbol not of Greece's ancient glory but of its modern predicament'(Leontis 1995: 40–66; see also McNeal 1991; Hamilakis 2007: 85–99).
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Karkazi, Elli, Athanassios Athanassiou, Andreas Darlas, Panagiotis Tokmakidis, Emmanouil K. Tzimtzimis, Vicky Chatziparadeisi, Ioannis Aspiotis, et al. "Beyond the walls: the design and development of the Petralona Cave virtual museum utilising 3D technologies." Virtual Archaeology Review 15, no. 30 (December 21, 2023): 80–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/var.2024.20014.
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The Petralona Cave, which local inhabitants discovered by chance in 1959, is a remarkable natural and cultural landmark close to the village of Petralona, in the Chalkidiki peninsula of Greece. The site has gained global recognition for the discovery of a remarkably well-preserved Palaeolithic human skull, unearthed in 1960; it also holds archaeological and palaeontological significance. In this paper, the researchers introduce the Petralona Cave Virtual Museum: an innovative project whose mission is to increase public awareness and comprehension of the site. Our approach goes beyond mere replication of the physical museum located close to the cave; instead, the objective is to create an independent and comprehensive experience that is accessible to all visitors, irrespective of their ability to visit the site in person. Our methodology involved the documentation of the site and its history, analysis of user requirements, development of use cases to steer the design process, as well as architectural designs creation, itineraries and findings digitisation, and architectural structure finalisation. The Virtual Museum provides a well-organised frame structure that serves as an efficient gateway to the content, making navigation easy for visitors. Thanks to various presentation methods, including videos, high-quality images, interactive maps, animated content, interactive 3D models, plus searchable item libraries, among others, users are empowered to create a highly personalised navigation plan; thus the Virtual Museum experience is comparable to visiting the physical museum or cultural site. Cutting-edge digitisation techniques were employed to create highly detailed 3D models of the site. The Petralona Cave Virtual Museum is expected to offer an immersive experience, engaging diverse audiences; the interactive and educational exploration provides highly innovative access to archaeological knowledge. The visibility of the Petralona site is amplified and there is a significant contribution to knowledge dissemination about this important cultural heritage site.
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Marangou, Christina, and Dimitris Grammenos. "‘Monumentality’, functionality, animality: on an unusual prehistoric clay head from central Macedonia, Greece, and its implications." Annual of the British School at Athens 100 (November 2005): 1–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400021134.
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The paper studies a Neolithic zoomorphic clay head from the Vasilika area, Central Macedonia, in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum. The figure, apparently a wild animal or a hybrid, is exceptional from several points of view such as its important dimensions, the choice of the represented subject, and the fact that it probably had belonged to a complex structure. Various aspects of the artefact are considered: its size, particular morphological features, iconographic characteristics, potential practical functions, as well as the identification and probability of likely originals. Different approaches for interpretation are also attempted. Possible parallels are examined from the Near East and the Balkans.
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Nikopoulou, Maria, Stefanos Karampelas, Evangelia Tsangaraki, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos S. Katsifas, Nazlis Ioannis, Annareta Touloumtzidou, Vasilios Melfos, and Nikolaos Kantiranis. "Study of a Third-Century CE Sapphire Gold Ring in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece." Journal of Gemmology 38, no. 8 (2023): 804–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15506/jog.2023.38.8.804.
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Kubala, Agata. "Hinged Fibulae from Halae in the Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens." Studies in Ancient Art and Civilisation 22 (January 31, 2019): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/saac.22.2018.22.02.
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The National Archaeological Museum of Athens possesses fourteen Greek fibulae of different sizes found during American excavations at Halae of Locris carried out between 1911 and 1914. They belong to the hinged fibula group, which is characterized by the distinctive decoration of its bows. Fibulae of this type have been found in the area of the Central Balkans, Romania, and northern and central Greece. Observable differences in the shapes of the decorative elements of these fibulae are of regional nature and allow several varieties to be identified within the type. The fibulae in question represent a local transformation of the northern models manifested mainly in the use of native Greek patterns particularly in the case of the palmettes decorating their hinge plates which are purely Greek in shape, and in the form of projections adorning their bows. The high artistic quality of the Halae fibulae reinforces the conviction of their Greek workmanship. They differ from each other in details, and this makes them very good examples of the development of the Greek variant of the hinged type fibula in the 5th century BC.
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Economou, G., E. Konstantinidi-Syvridi, I. Kougemitrou, M. Perraki, and D. C. Smith. "A MINERALOGICAL STUDY OF SOME MYCENAEAN SEALS EMPLOYING MOBILE RAMAN MICROSCOPY." Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 43, no. 2 (January 23, 2017): 804. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11246.
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The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece, and one of the most important museums in the world, devoted to Ancient Greek art and history. Among other exhibits, it owns a large collection of gemstones some of which were used during prehistoric times (Mycenaean period) as seals. Their shape varies from round to oval, flattish or cylindrical, and they are delicately engraved as intaglios with a variety of depictions (lions, bulls, man, etc). They show a wide range of colours from reddish, brown, to purplish and blue. The six sealstones described here come from the Chamber Tombs of Mycenae (15th-14th cent. BC). Museum exhibit labels recognize them as varieties of quartz such as jasper (NAM 3138), sardonyx (NAM 2316 & 2865), agate (NAM 4928), amazonite (NAM 2863) and gold-mounted carnelian (NAM 6489). Raman Spectroscopic analysis has been carried out with a new MRM (Mobile Raman Microscope) using a Kaiser Holoprobe with a NIR 785nm laser. The Raman spectra acquired from 1s-60s measurements confirmed that, in all six sealstones, quartz was the major mineral species clearly identified by its characteristic peaks. The second most important phase was moganite, a little-known polymorph of quartz. The amber-coloured sealstone (NAM 6489) was confirmed as carnelian, whereas the blue-green amazonite-coloured sealstone (NAM 2863) was not detected as amazonite. Small amounts of haematite were detected in the NAM 2865 & NAM 3138.
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Giuliani, Luca. "Zur Frage der Provenienz." Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur 46, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 131–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iasl-2021-0006.
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Abstract The question of provenance can have very different implications in different disciplines. In the case of archaeological objects, the finding spot of an object provides us with information about the objectʼs original meaning and function. If the excavation is illegal, those involved in illicit antiquities tend to cancel any trace of their action that could be used as proof of the crime. This leads to a systematic destruction of information: when the objects appear on the market they seem to come out of nowhere; it is exactly this loss of contextual information (and not the problem of ownership) that makes illegal excavation intolerable from a scholarly perspective. My test case is a Greek archaic statue acquired by the Berlin Museum in 1925: it had been heavily damaged in order to facilitate its smuggling out of Greece and then carefully restored in order to promote its acquisition by the museum.
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Morgan, Catherine. "The Work of the British School at Athens, 2012–2013." Archaeological Reports 59 (January 2013): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0570608413000045.
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The School's archaeological programme in 2012–2013 included fieldwork, museum studies (notably a project led by Robin Barber to complete the publication of material from early 20th-century excavations at Phylakopi now held in the National Museum in Athens) and many individual and group projects housed at Knossos and in the Fitch Laboratory. Following the success of the conference Interpreting the Seventh Century BC, in December 2011, a further workshop in December 2012 on Thessalian sanctuaries and cults, organized in collaboration with the University of Oxford, brought together 24 speakers, including many colleagues from Thessalian ephoreias and the University of Thessaly, to present new data and reflections. Maria Stamatopoulou comments further on material presented at this meeting in her contribution to this year's AG below. In London, collaboration with colleagues in the British Museum's Department of Greece and Rome resulted in a very popular study day on Knossos: from Labyrinth to Laboratory in November 2012 (now published online at www.bsa.ac.uk). This will soon be followed (on 2 November 2013) by a further collaboration in a British Museum Classical Colloquium on Archaeology Behind the Battle Lines: Macedonia 1915–1919, also in partnership with the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.Among our ongoing field projects, I begin with discussion of the excavation at Koutroulou Magoula in Thessaly directed by Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika (Director Emerita, EPSNE) and Yannis Hamilakis (Southampton), which in 2012 sought to clarify activity in the area of two Neolithic buildings uncovered in 2011 (Fig. 2). One of these buildings had been mostly destroyed in later periods, although evidence of outdoor activity includes hearths and in situ deposits.
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Bondar, Larisa. "On the Formation of the Exhibition “Religion and Atheism of Ancient Greece” in the Museum of the History of Religion and the Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences (According to Documents of SPbB ARAS)." Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, no. 6 (2021): 93. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640017184-0.
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The purpose of the publication is to describe the history of the creation of the exhibition “Religion of Ancient Greece” in 1954 at the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Documentary materials related to this case are stored in the museum fund at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (fund 221) and are being introduced into academic circulation for the first time. The author of the concept of the exhibition was an employee of the museum, a young antiquarian A.A. Neikhardt, who made efforts to replenish the museum with original exhibits and also contributed to the transfer to the museum of the finds of the Bosporan expedition from the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the USSR Academy of Sciences, thus being a “founding father” of the ancient archaeological collection of today's State Museum of the History of Religion. The figure behind the concept was the deputy director of the museum M.I. Shakhnovich. Two more St. Petersburg antiquarians were involved in the organization of the exhibition: S.I. Kovalev, the future Director of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism, and I.A. Shishova, a young specialist. The formation of expositions took place against the background of a certain ideological pressure when a researcher who wanted to engage in pure science had to subordinate his work to the ideological paradigm established by the state.
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Gkoltsiou, Aikaterini, Eleni Athanasiadou, and Angeliki T. Paraskevopoulou. "Agricultural Heritage Landscapes of Greece: Three Case Studies and Strategic Steps towards Their Acknowledgement, Conservation and Management." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 25, 2021): 5955. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13115955.
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United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the European Green Deal and the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are legislative proposals counting on rural and agricultural landscapes to assist climate change mitigation, ecosystem services and preservation of heritage. Agricultural landscapes take up more than 10% of the earth’s land surface (1.5 billion ha), presenting a continuous field of interaction between man and nature, shaping the earth’s epidermis since antiquity. The Mediterranean basin is one of the most evident places on earth exhibiting this relationship, between the anthropogenic and the natural, hosting lands of enormous ecological, economic and cultural value. With Greece’s economy being based largely on agriculture in the past, traditional Greek agricultural landscapes present great socio-cultural importance; those landscapes, managed appropriately, could dynamically help combat climate issues, continue to provide services of high value and also present local character, tradition and culture. Yet, the acknowledgement of agricultural heritage, the creation of mixed productive socio-ecological profiles and the realization of governance schemes towards agricultural connections, such as linking traditional agricultural practices to the wider anthropogenic, ecological and recreational services, are in their infancy for many countries worldwide, including Greece. Landscape heritage is considered as important as archaeological and architectural heritage. In this paper, three examples of high importance Agricultural Heritage Landscapes (AHLs) are presented: the masticulture in Chios island; the black (Corinthian) raisin vineyards in Aigialeia (Egialia), Peloponnese; and the olive groves of Thassos island. Their importance is analyzed and strategic steps towards their acknowledgement, conservation and appropriate management are presented.
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Vlizos, Stavros, Konstantinos Kotsopoulos, and Dimitrios Christodoulou. "Enhancing Cultural Sustainability: Making Rescue Excavations Accessible through Educational Applications and Virtual Reality." Sustainability 16, no. 4 (February 8, 2024): 1439. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16041439.
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The key questions of this article concern the extent to which digital documentation, 3D scanning technologies, and VR/AR technologies contribute to the preservation, enhancement, and sustainability of cultural heritage. The purpose of this research is to present an innovative methodology through which a platform for the diagnosis, management, and documentation of findings, progress, and reports and projections of rescue excavations in the area of Euboea, Greece was implemented. A holistic approach is proposed with a comprehensive system of archaeological documentation and visualization, which integrates the use of digital technologies in all steps of the archaeological process, enhances the tools of the scientific community, and provides immersive experiences for both researchers and the public. The results of the method include (1) a complex toolbox of innovative technologies that allow archaeologists to plan and execute a rescue excavation in an efficient and concise manner and (2) a VR installation at the Diachronic Museum of Chalkida “Arethousa”, which allows the public to participate in virtual rescue excavations and explore archaeological sites that are no longer accessible. Through this project, the impact of new technologies on cultural heritage and, in particular, on issues of sustainability, accessibility, education, and visitor participation is highlighted.
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Amar, Zohar, and Elron Zabatani. "The Use of the Terebinth Tree (Pistacia ssp.) in the Land of Israel in Antiquity: Fruit, Oil, and Resin." Moreshet Israel 19, no. 1 (2021): 5–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.26351/mi/19-1/1.
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This article undertakes a comprehensive study of the place of the terebinth (Pistacia palaestina) and the Pistacia atlantica (P. terebinthus) in both the cultivated and uncultivated landscapes of ancient Israel. Presenting detailed accounts of historical sources (primarily rabbinical and classical literature), along with archaeobotanical and paleographic archaeological sources, the study focuses on describing how the terebinth’s fruit has been used to provide food and oil and resin even until today. The main contribution of the article is in describing the practical process of producing oil and resin from the pistacia trees. The evidence shows that in the past, the resin, made mainly from the Pistacia atlantica, was used for medical purposes, and, especially, as an ingredient in incense. This resin was in high demand in the ancient world and became an export product of the Land of Israel. For the purposes of the study, resin was produced in Israel from some eighty trees at four different sites. Production was carried out based on two models: resin production from the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus) as practiced on Chios Island in Greece; and the method of resin production from the Pistacia atlantica in Iraqi Kurdistan, which is still sold throughout the Arab world. The large quantities of resin obtained confirm that this resin production was indeed an industry with economic potential and profitability in ancient Israel.
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Floropoulou, Vithleem, Triantafyllia Agelakopoulou, Eleni Metaxa, Chaido-Stefania Karagianni, and Fani Roubani-Kalantzopoulou. "Contribution of Adsorption Phenomena to the Degradation Study of Marble Statues in the Archaeological Museum of Philippi, Greece." Adsorption Science & Technology 27, no. 3 (April 2009): 319–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/026361709789868866.
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Ricci, Sandra, Rossana Sanfilippo, Daniela Basso, Carlotta Sacco Perasso, Federica Antonelli, and Antonietta Rosso. "Benthic Community Formation Processes of the Antikythera Shipwreck Statues Preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (Greece)." Journal of Maritime Archaeology 14, no. 1 (October 30, 2018): 81–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11457-018-9205-3.
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Elefanti, Paraskevi. "The Unfamiliar Past: The Outreach of Palaeolithic Archaeology in Greek Archaeological Museums." Ex Novo: Journal of Archaeology 6 (February 11, 2022): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/vol6isspp65-85.
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The way in which the Stone Age was presented in regional museums in Greece was strongly conditioned by the example set by the National Museum in Athens, with its emphasis on the Classical period after independence from Ottoman rule in 1830. Archaeology and museums provided the ideal tools with which to articulate the links between the emerging nation and perceived past glories. Evidence from earlier periods, being less striking and abundant and more difficult to interpret was side-lined, a pattern which persists today in the relatively small number of museums that devote space to the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. But this is changing and from the early 2000s onwards in both newly built museums and those that were redeveloped, displays focusing on early prehistory have increased in number. This paper looks at ten such museums and how they present the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. Despite the increase, the numbers are still too few and the quality of the displays is quite variable, to the extent that the ability of most to engage the public imagination is doubtful.
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Uskoković, Sandra. "Hegemony of the Antiquity’ Heritage: Sharing a Common Past?" Ars Adriatica 12 (December 30, 2022): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15291/aa.4078.
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While focusing on Greece and North Macedonia, I will argue that the hegemony of authorized heritage discourse reveals the dominance of Hellenophilia, which has been continuously reinforced since the nineteenth century by archaeological discoveries of the ancient Greeks. The heritage narratives around the Warrior Hero statue in Skopje (2011) and the New Acropolis Museum in Athens (2009) glorify the ancient past and exclude other historical periods and cultural/ethnic influences, which creates a pregnant imaginary for Eurocentrism, while the hegemony of heritage sites is being harnessed for political agendas. Contrary to that, a celebration of shared civilizational heritage is being forged around imaginings of a glorious antiquity of East and West conjoined by the new Silk Road, specifically between China and Greece, emphasizing it via archaeology, heritage sites, and museums related to the Silk Road. This article is an attempt to demystify the domineering force of Eurocentric heritage studies and practice that suppress multi-cultural views, and ask whether heritage narratives constructed around the new Silk Road’s identity and shared past that look beyond borders can rebuild a dialogue of transnational heritage.
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Papageorgiou-Venetas, Alexander. "A future for Athens." Ekistics and The New Habitat 69, no. 415-417 (December 1, 2002): 209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200269415-417338.
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The author, an architect and town planner, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Athens Technical University, specialized in town planning in Paris, and obtained his Ph. D in urban design at the Technical University of West Berlin. After a ten-year period of practicing architecture in Athens where he conducted several studies for the Greek Tourism Organization (hotels), the Archaeological Service of Greece (landscaping of excavation areas) and private clients, he has been working mainly in Germany (Berlin and Munich) as well as in Greece as an urban designer in a wide scope of activities, including teaching, research and a planning consultancy. His special interest focuses on urban conservation, planning and urban history. He has worked with the Freie Planungsgruppe Berlin and the Burckhard Planconsulť Basel.He has elaborated major planning development and preservation schemes for the Greek state (Chios Tourist Development, Mykonos-Delos Development Plan, Chania Old Town Preservation Scheme) and acted as an expert for UNESCO (1970, Iran) and the UNCHS (1982, Yugoslavia). As an advisor to the Greek Minister of Culture ( 1974- 1977) he coordinated the Greek participation in the U.N. Vancouver Conference on Human Settlements (1976) and in the European Architectural Heritage Year (1975). He has also acted as the liaison officer between the National Greek Committee and the UNESCO experts for the Acropolis conservation campaign. He has taught as a visiting professor in Berlin (1969-1970), Stuttgart (1981-1982) and Munich (1996-1997) and was for 10 years (1976-1985) Professor of Urban History at the Post-Graduate Center "Raymond Lemaire" for the Conservation of the Architectural and Urban Heritage in Bruges and Louvain/Belgium. He has elaborated major research studies on European planning history and planning issues of his native town Athens, and is considered an authority on the town planning history of modern Athens.
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Maria Valamoti, Soultana. "Evangelia Stefani, Nikos Merousis and Anastasia Dimoula. A century of research in prehistoric Macedonia 1912-2012." Journal of Greek Archaeology 1 (January 1, 2016): 406–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/jga.v1i.659.
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This volume is the fruitful outcome of an international conference dedicated to a century of prehistoric research in Macedonia. The conference was held within a wider framework of commemorations on the occasion of the centenary since the liberation of Thessaloniki from the Ottoman rule. The conference was organised by the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, its director Polyxeni Adam-Veleni and a large team of the Museum’s archaeologists as well as Archaeology Professors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The volume, edited by Evangelia Stefani, Nikos Merousis and Anastasia Dimoula, presents a rich overview of prehistoric investigations conducted within the geographical area corresponding to the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. It comprises in total sixty papers written mostly in Greek (12 amongst them are written in English), with English abstracts, occasionally of substantial extent.
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Konstantinidi-Syvridi, Eleni, and Maria Kontaki. "Casting Finger Rings in Mycenaean Times: Two Unpublished Moulds at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens." Annual of the British School at Athens 104 (November 2009): 311–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400000277.
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The recording of two unpublished moulds in the storeroom of the Prehistoric Collections of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, presented here, provide the stimulus for a re-examination of the construction method of the bezeled/signet rings of Mycenaean times. The moulds, one of semi-cylindrical shape and the other rectangular, belong to a limited class of items from Crete, Mainland Greece, and Enkomi, Cyprus.It is possible that such moulds have served for the construction of the wax model of the artefacts, in the lost wax technique and not directly for the cast of gold, since the very construction of them, which is time-consuming and necessitates the skills of specialized craftsmen, indicates that they did not serve for a single use but rather for several uses. On the other hand, even steatite, the stone mostly used for such moulds, cannot adhere to continuous pressure to high temperatures, necessary for casting gold.Στην παρούσα μελετη καταγράφονται δύο αδημοσίευτες μήτρες από την αποθήκη της Προϊστορικής Συλλογής του Εθνικού Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου στην Αθήνα, προσφέροντας το ερέθισμα για μία επανεξέταση της τεχνικής κατασκευής των δακτυλιδιών με σφενδόνη της Μυκηναϊκής εποχής. Οι μήτρες, από τις οποίες η μία είναι ημικυλινδρική και η άλλη ορθογώνια, ανήκουν σε μία περιορισμένη τάξη ευρημάτων, που προέρχονται από την Κρήτη, την Ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα και την Έγκωμη της Κύπρου.Είναι πιθανό ότι αυτές οι μήτρες να χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την κατασκευή των κέρινων εκμαγείων των δακτυλιδιών κατά την τεχνική του «χαμένου κεριού» και όχι για την απευθείας χύτευση χρυσού. Η ίδια η κατασκευή τους, που προϋποθέτει πολύ χρόνο και ειδικευμένους τεχνίτες, υποδεικνύει ότι δεν χρησιμοποιήθηκαν μόνο για μία φορά. Από την άλλη πλευρά, ακόμη και ο στεατίτης, ο λίθος που κατεξοχήν χρησιμοποιήθηκε για την κατασκευή αυτών των αντικειμένων, δεν θα μπορούσε να αντέξει τις υψηλές θερμοκρασίες, που απαιτούντοα για την χύτευση του χρυσού σε διαδοχικές χρήσεις.
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Adamopoulos, E., F. Rinaudo, and D. Adamopoulou. "AUTOMATIZING DEGRADATION MAPPING OF ANCIENT STELAE BY DUAL-BAND IMAGING AND MACHINE LEARNING-BASED CLASSIFICATION." ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences VIII-M-1-2021 (August 27, 2021): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-viii-m-1-2021-9-2021.
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Abstract. Degradation patterns are the visible consequence of the impacts of environmental factors and biological agents on stone heritage. Accurately documenting them is a key requisite when studying exposed stone antiquities to interpret weathering causes, identify conservation needs, and plan cleaning interventions. However, a significant gap can be identified in practical automatized procedures for mapping patterns on stone antiquities, such as ancient stelae. This work evaluates a workflow that uses visible and near-infrared imaging, combined with machine learning-based digital image segmentation tools, to classify degradation patterns on marble stelae correctly and cost-effectively. For this work, different classification methods are considered. Results are analyzed using error matrixes and reference degradation maps. The application cases include stelae displayed in the courtyard of the Archaeological Museum of Eretria (Euboea, Greece). The proposed methodology aims at being easily adapted to facilitate the conservators’ work.
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Tsigarida, Bettina. "A New Gold Myrtle Wreath from Central Macedonia in the Collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki." Annual of the British School at Athens 105 (November 2010): 305–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400000435.
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A gold myrtle wreath was acquired by the Jean Paul Getty Museum in 1993, and returned to Greece in 2007: it is now housed in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (inv. no. ΜΘ 24000). While its technical features and methods of manufacture have already been discussed in previous publications, this article focuses on provenance, dating, and comparisons. On the basis of a detailed structural analysis and parallels for this wreath, the author suggests Central Macedonia as its provenance and a date towards the end of the 4th century bc. This is the eighth myrtle wreath from this region, implying that this type was made in local workshops. The concluding section of this article offers a brief account of the use of wreaths in ancient Greece.Ένα χρυσό στεφάνι μυρτιάς, που αγοράστηκε από του Μουσείο γκεττύ το 1993, επιστράφηκε στην Ελλάδα το 2007 και συμπεριλήφθηκε στη συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Θεσσαλονίκης (ΜΘ 24000). Οι τεχνικές λεπτομέρειες και η μέθοδος κατασκευής του έχουν παρουσιαστεί σε σχετικές δημοσιεύσεις. Η παρούσα εργασία εξετάςει την προέλευση, τη χρονολόγηση και τη σύγκρισή του με άλλα παρόμοια χρυσά στεφάνια μυρτιάς. Βασισμένη στη λεπτομερή ανάλυση της δομής του αντικειμένου και στα παράλληλά του, η συγγραφέας προτείνει την Κεντρική Μακεδονία ως τόπο προέλευσής του και το χρονολογεί στα τέλη του 4ου αιώνα π.Χ. Είναι το όγδοο χρυσό στεφάνι μυρτιάς από την περιοχή αυτή υποδηλώνοντας ότι αυτός ο τύπος κατασκευαςόταν εκεί, σε τοπικά εργαστήρια. Στο τελευταίο τμήμα της εργασίας γίνεται σύντομη αναφορά στη χρήση των χρυσών στεφανιών στην αρχαία Ελλάδα.
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Hatzivassiliou, Eleni. "Attic Vases in Rhodes - (A.A.) Lemos Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Greece. Rhodes, Archaeological Museum: Attic Black Figure. Greece, Fascicule 10. Rhodes, Archaeological Museum, Fascicule 1. Pp. 138, ills, b/w & colour pls. Athens: Academy of Athens, 2007. Cased. ISBN: 978-960-404-098-8." Classical Review 58, no. 2 (October 2008): 571–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x08001212.
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Jaskanis, Paweł Olaf. "JAN KAZIMIERZ JASKANIS (1932–2016) – A SON’S MEMORY OF HIS FATHER." Muzealnictwo 58, no. 1 (July 3, 2017): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.1581.
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A primeval archaeologist (MA 1955, PhD 1971), an organiser of protection for monuments in the Białystok province (1954–1980), Director of the Regional Museum in Białystok (1974–1980) and the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw (1980–2000). He dealt with archaeology, museology and the protection of monuments. He also popularised related knowledge and linguistic and religious issues. He established the provincial record of archaeological monuments as well as conservation archives, both of which were then developed at the museum. From 1959 to 1975 he was Scientific Secretary to the Yotvingia Scientific Expedition. He was a teacher, an editor and a social activist. He wrote over 200 publications, of which the most important are The funeral rite of the Western Balts at the end of antiquity (Warsaw, 1974); a critical study of Aleksander Brückner’s work Ancient Lithuania: tribes and gods: historical and mythological drafts (Olsztyn, 1979, 1984); Cecele. Ein Gräberfeld der Wielbark-Kultur in Ostpolen (Warsaw, 1996); Krupice. Ein Gräberfeld der Przeworsk- und Wielbark- Kultur in Ostpolen (Warsaw, 2005), Kurgans of leaders of the Wielbark culture at Podlachia (Białystok, 2012); and Switzerland. The cemetery of the Baltic Sudovian culture in north–eastern Poland (Warsaw, 2013). He specialised in researching Roman influence in Central Europe and the prehistory of north–eastern Poland, the culture of Baltic tribes (including the Yotvingians), Baltiysk and the Slavonic border, and in the Przeworsk and Wielbark cultures. He discovered and defined the Cecelska regional group, thus determining the late phase of the Wielbark culture, starting from the early period of Roman influence to its decline as a result of tribal migrations; their kurgans traced the areas of relocation of the Goths and the Gepids from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. His successful exhibitions included “The Balts – northern neighbours to the Slavs” (displayed in Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Italy and Germany several times), “Treasures of primeval Poland” (in Padua, Turin, Aquileia, Schollach) and “The prehistory of Warsaw” (Berlin). He was a member of museum councils as well as the council for museums at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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Efstratiou, Nikos. "The archaeology of the Greek uplands: the early iron age site of Tsouka in the Rhodope Mountains." Annual of the British School at Athens 88 (November 1993): 135–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400015926.
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The upland areas of Greece have long been outside the main focus of archaeological interest. With regard to prehistoric research, mountains were never seen as potential habitation areas, and recovery techniques had to address unusual environmental and geomorphological situations. Research in the Rhodopi mountains initiated by Komotini Museum attempts to illustrate some aspects of this upland archaeology. This article presents the results of excavation at an early iron age site which appears to give an insight into the habitation behaviour of the Thracian mountain population at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. It is proposed for the first time that a number of the so-called Thracian places found scattered all over the Rhodopi mountains are not, as at first thought, fortified acropoleis but sites with special functions, serving an agricultural and pastoral economy. It is further suggested that ethnoarchaeological observations can serve as valuable explanatory hypotheses which can be tested against the available excavation data.
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Akamatis, Nikos. "DISCOVERING MACEDONIAN RED-FIGURE POTTERY: A NEW PELIKE ATTRIBUTED TO THE PELLA WORKSHOP." Annual of the British School at Athens 109 (November 2014): 223–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245414000161.
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The question of the appearance, operating conditions and diffusion of the products of local red-figure pottery workshops in the fourth centurybc, in conjunction with the spread of Attic red-figure ware and its influence on local potteries, has been a focus of research in recent years. The result has been the recognition of a number of local workshops all across Greece, including those of Chalcidice, Boeotia, Euboea, Corinth, Elis, Sparta, Crete and the Agrinion Group. This article examines a red-figure pelike made by a previously unknown local workshop that was very likely located in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia. This vessel was in storage in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and is one of the best-preserved examples from that Macedonian workshop. In shape and decoration it recalls Attic vases of the second half of the fourth centurybc, and particularly the work of Group G and the Amazon Painter. The pelike dates fromc.320bcand is attributed to the Pella B Painter.
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Tringa, Efstathia, Dimitris Kavroudakis, and Konstantia Tolika. "Microclimate-Monitoring: Examining the Indoor Environment of Greek Museums and Historical Buildings in the Face of Climate Change." Heritage 7, no. 3 (March 9, 2024): 1400–1418. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage7030067.
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The preservation of cultural artifacts within museums and historical buildings requires control of microclimatic conditions, and the constantly evolving climate certainly poses a challenge to maintaining recommended conditions. Focused on the Archaeological Museum of Delphi and the Church of Acheiropoietos in Greece, our study evaluates the hygrothermal behavior of these buildings with a specific emphasis on the preservation of cultural heritage objects hosted there. An innovative approach to the real-time analysis of data is utilized, aiming to achieve a timely detection of extreme temperature and humidity levels. A one-year monitoring campaign was carried out to achieve a detailed assessment of the indoor climate in selected museums and historical buildings in Greece. The monitoring campaign was performed using dataloggers that were set to measure and record temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH) values hourly. The results allowed for the detection of extreme temperature and relative humidity values, pinpointing the time period that requires more attention. The museum’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems provide temperature control for visitor comfort, but the temperature still rises in summer, highlighting the impact of external climate factors. The church’s lack of HVAC systems widens the temperature range compared to the museum, but significant hourly fluctuations are not observed, underlining the building’s high thermal mass and inertia. Both buildings demonstrate a significant response to changes in outdoor temperature, emphasizing the need for future adaptation to climate change. The HMRhs and PRD indices indicate minimal microclimate risk in both buildings for temperature and RH, reducing the probability of material damage. The church’s slightly higher HMRhs index values, attributed to relative humidity, increases susceptibility due to sensitive materials. Overall, the study highlights the importance of managing microclimatic conditions in historical buildings and proposes careful adaptations for the protection of cultural heritage.
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Tsipra, Theodora, and Hara Drinia. "Geocultural Landscape and Sustainable Development at Apano Meria in Syros Island, Central Aegean Sea, Greece: An Ecomuseological Approach for the Promotion of Geological Heritage." Heritage 5, no. 3 (August 10, 2022): 2160–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage5030113.
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In order to create a cultural landscape, the number of different types of ecomuseums around the world, covering many sites, has recently increased. Their establishment aims at the protection of natural and cultural resources. The north area of Syros Island offers significant opportunities for the development of a museum model that promotes the sustainable development of the local community. The aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of developing a museum model that promotes the sustainable development of the local community in Apano Meria, Syros Island, which is a representative site with natural, geological, and archaeological heritage. For this purpose, the engagement and participation of the local inhabitants was evaluated through various activities, the basic principles of which are based on the concepts of New Museology and, more specifically, those of ecomuseums. Qualitative research was carried out through on-site observations, including discussions, participant observation, documentation, and in-depth interviews with local people. This research revealed that, so far, the conservation of the Apano Meria landscape is mainly due to the action of local people, who have repeatedly been called upon to show strong resistance to external factors that threatened to alter it. In their long-term effort to preserve and protect the area, but also to develop it in terms of sustainable development, the idea of its possible future inclusion in the UNESCO Global Network of Geoparks was proposed.
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Simonton, Matthew. "TWO NOTES ON THE NEW CROESUS EPIGRAM FROM THEBES." Classical Quarterly 70, no. 1 (May 2020): 10–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838820000427.
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In March 2005 a rescue excavation uncovered a spectacular new epigraphic find from Thebes. Now on display in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes, a column drum 0.41 m in height has inscribed on it two identical epigrams, one (the older one) written vertically in Boeotian script and a second (later) Ionian copy written horizontally on the other side. Nikolaos Papazarkadas published the editio princeps of the epigram in 2014, using both inscriptions to create a composite text. As Papazarkadas realized, the column drum, which has a chi-shaped orifice at one end meant to hold a stationary object, at one point displayed a ‘shining shield’ (φαεννὰν | [ἀσπ]ίδα, lines 3–4) that Herodotus had seen in the temple of Apollo Ismenius in Thebes. Moreover, this shield was interpreted by Herodotus (relying on the language of the inscription and likely on the commentary of temple staff) as having been dedicated by the Lydian king Croesus to the hero Amphiaraus, when he was ‘testing’ the various oracles in Greece in order to decide on a course of action against his rival Cyrus of Persia.
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Pitt, Robert. "The city of Athens." Archaeological Reports 60 (November 2014): 38–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0570608414000064.
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Archaeological data from the city of Athens entered into Archaeology in Greece Online this year are derived from recent work announced in the press or unpublished field reports and from the latest Archaiologikon Deltion, covering work in 2005. The difficulty of bridging this gap of almost a decade is eased greatly by the publication of a series of lectures held at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens by members of the Ephoreias of Athens and Attica, covering in a much more detailed way than ADelt allows many important excavations and research projects. The support of the Goulandris and Latsis Foundations, both in organizing the lectures and in publishing them in timely fashion and at very low cost (€10 per volume), is to be applauded (M. Dogka-Toli and S. Oikonomidou (eds), Αρχαιολογικές συμβολές. A: Αττική – ΚΣΤ’ και Β’Εφορείες Προïστορικών & Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων and Β: Αττική – Α’ και Γ’ Εφορείες Προïστορικών & Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων, Athens 2013). Further information, images and bibliography for the following summary can be found by searching the given ID numbers at AGOnline:www.chronique.efa.gr.
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Buzko, A. V. "LETTERS FROM ANASTASIA MANTSEVYCH TO MARIA VIAZMITINA." Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine 33, no. 4 (December 25, 2019): 423–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2019.04.33.
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The paper gives the review of epistolary materials for the biography of two archaeologists — Dr. Anastasia Mantsevych from Leningrad (1899—1982) and Dr. Maria Viazmitina from Kyiv (1896—1994). The documents are retained in Maria Viazmitina’s personal fund (N 34) in the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archaeology of NASU.
Among 126 letters from A. Mantsevych to M. Viazmitina 43 are selected for fragmentary publishing. These letters show us the personality of Anastasiia Mantsevych during the time period from 1952 to 1982. Letters demonstrate what thoughts, ideas and reflections stayed behind her published papers, behind her confidence at the scientific conferences during public polemics. Letters discover a strong individual and a sensitive human being at the same time, making essential addition to her scientific portrait.
Through the letters the article also gives a review of scientific life in the State Hermitage Museum (Leningrad) and in the Institute of Archaeology (Kyiv). Correspondents point and discuss the significant museum exhibitions and sensational archaeological discoveries, share their plans about visiting main scientific conferences and congresses. Among the discussed topics are «Treasures of Tutankhamun tomb» in Leningrad (1974) and in Kyiv (1975); exhibition exchange between British Museum and State Hermitage in 1979 («The Siberian Collection of Peter I» and «The Oxus treasure»); Dr. Yuri Boltryk’s excavations of Oguz tomb in 1980, Borys Mozolevski’s and Halyna Kovpanenko’s findings of that period, Oleksandr Leskov’s findings in the tombs of the North Caucasus. There are also reflections about Professor Manolis Andronikos’ findings — the tomb of Macedonian kings near Vergina settlement in Northern Greece and Viktor Sarianidi’s findings of «Bactrian Gold» in Afghanistan.
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Homer, Nikos L. "The Role of Destination Image in Influencing Tourist Behaviors and Experiences: A Comparative Study of the Greek Islands versus Mainland Destinations." Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management 6, no. 3 (July 12, 2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.53819/81018102t4174.
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This research delved into the significance of destination image in shaping tourist behaviors and experiences, through a comparative study between the Greek Islands and mainland destinations. Previous literature provided substantial groundwork for understanding the concept of destination image and its correlation with tourist behavior. A comprehensive review of numerous scholarly articles, journals, and books was undertaken to identify the core elements contributing to destination image, such as natural resources, cultural heritage, hospitality, and tourist facilities. The study highlighted the crucial role of destination image as a determinant of tourist satisfaction, which, in turn, influenced behavioral intentions like word-of-mouth promotion and revisits. The analysis was bifurcated into two sections, representing the Greek Islands and the mainland, with each section examining distinct aspects of these diverse environments. Findings from the literature revealed a more romantic and adventurous image associated with the Greek Islands, rooted in their unique cultural attributes, beautiful landscapes, and laid-back lifestyle. This image was found to stimulate tourist activities related to relaxation, exploration, and cultural immersion. In contrast, mainland Greece, rich in history, architecture, and tradition, was perceived as more educational and historical. Tourists here were likely to engage in activities like museum visits, city tours, and archaeological explorations. Discrepancies in tourist behaviors and experiences in the two regions underlined the powerful influence of destination image. While both regions attracted tourists, their behaviors and experiences differed based on the respective destination images. This research has filled an academic gap by providing a comparative analysis of tourist behaviors and experiences influenced by the destination image between the Greek Islands and mainland Greece. It also offers practical insights to tourism planners and marketers in these regions, emphasizing the need for destination marketing strategies that accurately reflect and capitalize on their distinct destination images. Keywords: Destination Image, Tourist Behaviors, Tourist Experiences, Greek Islands Tourism, Mainland Greece Tourism