Airbnb Athens: The Archaeologist's House next to the Acropolis

29/04/2024

This Friday 3/5 at 12:00 British time (2:00 Greek time) we'll be delighted to have Dr Borja Legarra Herrero in our Aegean Bronze Age seminar which will be held in person at K/159 and online.

Dr Borja Legarra Herrero is a Lecturer in the Comparative Mediterranean Prehistory at UCL, and his research is focused on the Aegean Prehistory, the later prehistory of South East Spain, ceramic studies, and state formation. He is currently co-directing a significant project titled "Minoan gold: an archaeometallurgical analysis of Crete's place in the East Mediterranean world," in collaboration with Prof. Marcos Martinón-Torres. The project aims to study Pre- and Protopalatial gold items in order to test the hypothesis that gold supply to Crete, and technological choices in gold metallurgy, changed at some point in the 2nd millennium BC.

Please, join us in person at K/159 - there will be tea and biscuits!
Here is the link if you're joining online:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6807190724
Meeting ID: 680 719 0724

Feel free to share the information with your colleagues and students. The seminar is a very casual event; everybody is welcome, and the talks are tailored for undergraduate students and everyone without prior knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age. If you have any questions, please let me.

07/04/2024

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This Friday 12/4 at 13:30 BST we are delighted to have Professor Dimitri Nakassis of the University of Colorado Boulder in our monthly Aegean Bronze Age seminar which will be held in person at K/159 and online. Professor Nakassis will talk about the use of digital methods to document the Mycenaean administrative texts in his talk "New approaches to Linear B inscriptions: digital documentation and material analysis".

Professor Dimitri Nakassis is a distinguished academic in the field of Archaeology with a special focus on the Mycenaean world, currently serving as a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Classics since 2016. Professor Nakassis's excellence in research and teaching has been recognised with several prestigious awards, including the College Professor of Distinction at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, in 2024, and the MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2015.

Please, join us in person at K/159 - there will be tea and biscuits!
Here is the link if you're joining online:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6807190724
Meeting ID: 680 719 0724

Feel free to share the information with your colleagues and students. The seminar is a very casual event; everybody is welcome, and the talks are tailored for undergraduate students and everyone without prior knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age. If you have any questions, please let me know.

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Αυτή την Παρασκευή 12/4 στις 15:30 ώρα Ελλάδας θα μιλήσει ο καθηγητής Δημήτρης Νακάσης (Dimitri Nakassis) στο Αιγαιακό σεμινάριο που διοργανώνεται υπό την αιγίδα του Πανεπιστημίου του Γιορκ. Η ομιλία θα είναι στην αγγλική και έχει τίτλο 'New approaches to Linear B inscriptions: digital documentation and material analysis'.

Το λινκ της ομιλίας:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6807190724
Meeting ID: 680 719 0724

Οι διαλέξεις του σεμιναρίου είναι ειδικά σχεδιασμένες για φοιτητές και είναι επίσης ανοιχτές στο κοινό. Παρακαλώ, μοιραστείτε τις πληροφορίες της ομιλίας με τους φοιτητές και συναδέλφους σας. Για όποια άλλη πληροφορία, μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε: [email protected].

07/03/2024

Tomorrow 8/3 at noon (2:00 for Greece) we are delighted to have Dr Michael Boyd for our monthly Aegean Bronze Age seminar which will be held in person at K/159 or online. Dr Boyd will talk about the archaeological research at Cyclades in his lecture "Connectivity, Creativity and Identity: Social Transformations in the Third Millennium BCE Cyclades".

Dr Boyd's research interests lie in the prehistoric Aegean where he has worked in the Peloponnese and Cyclades. He is the co-director with Colin Renfrew of the Keros-Naxos Seaways Project, a four-year survey and excavation project focused on the Early Bronze Age of the Cycladic islands in the Aegean.

Please, join us in person at K/159 - there will be tea and biscuits!
Here is the link if you're joining online:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6807190724
Meeting ID: 680 719 0724

29/02/2024

*English below*
3 μέρες έμειναν μέχρι να κλείσει η πλατφόρμα που μπορεί κανείς να συνεισφέρει για το αιγαιακό σεμινάριο σε αυτόν τον σύνδεσμο: https://spsr.me/nKXN

Το σεμινάριο έχει ως βασικό στόχο να φέρει τους προπτυχιακούς φοιτητές σε επαφή με την αιγαιακή αρχαιολογία αλλά κ το ευρύ κοινό, καθώς οι διαλέξεις είναι ανοιχτές σε όλους σε υβριδική μορφή.

Τα χρήματα που θα συγκεντρωθούν θα διατεθούν ώστε να καλύψουν τα έξοδα μετακίνησης των προσκεκλημένων ομιλητών καθώς και τρέχοντα έξοδα του σεμιναρίου, όπως π.χ. τροφοδοσία.

Το πανεπιστήμιο δίνει το αντίστοιχο ποσό για κάθε συμβολή, ώστε το τελικό ποσό να είναι διπλό, επομένως και 5 ευρώ κάνουν διάφορα.

Για πληροφορίες, μπορείτε να επικοινωνείτε μέσω ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου: [email protected]

Ευχαριστούμε!

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3 days left to contribute to the crowdfunding for the Aegean Bronze Age seminar!
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The seminar aims to introduce the undergraduate students to the Aegean archaeology and potentially nurture the next generation of brilliant specialists in the field! The seminar is also open to the public since it's in a hybrid form.

The funds are currently matched by the university, and thus even a small contribution makes a huge difference.

The funds will go towards covering the travel expenses of the invited speakers, as well as small costs such as catering.

If you have any questions, please get in touch: [email protected]

Thank you!

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19/02/2024

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19/07/2020

Parthenon, temple that dominates the hill of the Acropolis at Athens. It was built in the mid-5th century bce and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena Parthenos (“Athena the Virgin”). The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order, the simplest of the three Classical Greek architectural orders.

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08/07/2020

The Stoa of Attalos is a structure in the Athenian , in walking distance from the house.

It was built by and named after Attalos II of Perggamon, who ruled between 159 BC and 138 BC.

The current building was in 1952–1956 by American along with the Greek Ioannis Travlos and the Greek Civil Engineer Yeoryios Biris.

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07/07/2020

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It’s an almost artistic assemblage of cultures as the visitor walks through significant landmarks of different cultures and eras - the Greek and Agora, the Pandanassa Orthodox church and the Tzistarakis Mosque coexist in stoical harmony

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