A report from Athens News that Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos said on April 3 that the Minos Ring has been assessed by the Archaeological Service as being an authentic 3,500-year-old piece of Minoan jewelry.

World heritage listing of the Acropolis archaeological site by UNESCO.

Andrea Vianello, University of Sheffield, provides papers and notes on archaeology, structured as questions and answers, plus links on Aegean prehistory.

Article on the various excavated cities in Crete.

Young students guide to archaeology in Greece using WebQuest. University of Richmond resource for teachers

A detailed gazetteer from the Greek Ministry of Culture. Illustrated descriptions of sites of all periods.

Background course guide to the archaeology of Greece by G. Kenneth Sams and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The American School of Classical Studies in Athens presents its findings from excavations since 1931, which are displayed in the reconstructed Hellenistic Stoa of Attalos Includes Quicktime videos.

Offers an interactive map, photos and brief summaries of the archaeological sites.

A series of chapters on the history and culture of Minoan, Mycenean, and Dark Ages Greece from Washington State University.

Gallery of Byzantine art and historical related images.

Collection of photographic images of the Temple of Apollo,and the Acrocorinth.

From the times, s stele sold by Bonhams last year is being returned to Greece next week after a London dealer who bought it discovered that the inscribed upright stone slab had been stolen from a museum there 21 years ago.

Collection of photographic images of Delphi: Temple of Apollo, Sanctuary of Athena, and the Athenian Treasury.

Official Web site of the Neolithic lakeside settlement. Provides a history of the research, a team directory, the volunteer program, news, photos, and contact information. [Greek and English]

By Dr. Janice Siegel of Temple University. Award-winning site with photographs and lectures on ancient Greece.

Aims to contribute to the history of architecture in the ancient Mediterranean by investigating the influence of the socio-economical and cultural transformations in the Archaic Greek society on the formation of art and architecture. In the same way, it reflects on the subsequent making of a self-definition of the polis society.

Multidisciplinary survey of eastern Korinthia, an important hub of trade and transport in the ancient Greek world. Project aims, area, staff, methodology, reports, bibliography.

The Mediterranean Laboratory of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology reports on its progress in publishing work on this prehistoric village in Northeast Greece. Includes photographs.

Report on the excavations conducted in the cave during 1996 by Yannos G. Lolos, Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Epirus.

University of Chicago reports and final publication of objects found at the Sanctuary of Poseidon on the Isthmus of Corinth and surrounding area.

Vienna University fieldwork at the ancient battlefield of Plataiai. History of the site and current researches.

Dutch archaeological study of the occupational history of the acropolis site of Geraki in Laconia, and its relationship to the rest of Laconia and the Aegean world. The methods used include topographical studies, intensive survey, and excavation.

Excavations at Arethousa, Greece, conducted by the Finnish Institute at Athens. Site dates from the Neolithic period onwards and the study is centered on an ancient basilica and its environs.

Indiana University overview of excavations conducted at Franchthi Caves. Includes images, essays, and bibliography.

University of Nottingham survey used to identify buildings and roads in the southern half of the ancient Macedonian city of Philippi.

Collection of useful links on Greek archaeology. Research institutes, architecture, sites, craft and engineering, and special topics.

Directory of Internet resources from the University of Pennsylvania.

Extensive listing of archaeological sites and excavations in Greece and Cyprus.

Details of 7 museums and 13 archaeological sites on Crete, from University of Crete.

The project studies the emergence of statehood and social complexity in ancient Greece by investigating the area around Iklaina, a district capital of the ancient kingdom of Pylos, in southwest Peloponnese; by the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Inter-disciplinary research project investigating one of the district capitals of the Mycenaean kingdom of Pylos.

Photographs of the palace built c.1700-1300 BC taken by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College. Part of her Digital Imaging Project.

From Ananova, Italian culture minister Giuliano Urbani has promised to return a fragment of the 5th century BC Parthenon to Greece on a long-term loan.

Project takes a multidisciplinary approach to clarify and further investigate the remains of the sanctuary area and to locate the ancient coastline and to investigate the existence of any preserved ancient harbor facilities.

Palaeolithic excavation and survey in Epirus, Northwest Greece, conducted by Geoff Bailey (Co-ordinator), with a multi-national team of 33 specialists (1979 - 1997).

The British School at Athens describes the history and excavations at the Minoan Palace of Knossos in Crete. Includes QuickTime tours of the palace and some of the artifacts from it.

Multi-disciplinary and diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1996 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement and land use in an area centered on the Greek colony of Apollonia. The project employs techniques of intensive archaeological surface survey in conjunction with natural environmental investigations.

QTVR tours of archaeological sites in Greece.

Field survey and excavations of the Bronze Age in the western Peloponnesos conducted by the University of Minnesota at Messene, Morea, and Pylos.

Information about all the major and some of the minor archaeological sites of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete. Descriptions and photos.

Collection of photographic images of the Citadel and Lions Gate.

Bryn Mawr College and American School of Classical Studies intensive surface survey and analysis of an area of approximately 80 square kilometers in the southern Corinthia, Greece.

Essays on Dark Age archaeology by Jan Sammer.

Conducts archaeological research, education, and publication at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia. Provides preliminary reports, fieldwork, projects, resources, and news.

Archaeological survey investigating the area of ancient Oropos, near Athens.

Photographs, 3D computer model, brief description and bibliography of the great Minoan palace from Great Buildings Online.

An introduction with artist's impression and visitor information from Dilos Holiday World.

Image library of the 13th century BCE palace located in western Messenia on the southwest coast of the Peloponnesos.

Series of lessons and illustrations, tracing the Aegean from Palaeolithic and Neolithic times to Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece by Jeremy B. Rutter at Dartmouth College.

From ekathimerini, finds at Archontiko, near Pella in northern Greece, have shed further light on the wealth, heroic culture, commerce and burial rituals of ancient Macedonians, following the discovery of 396 unlooted tombs and 5,000 objects, dating between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE.

A report in Athens News that an archaeologist thinks he may have found the ancient Mycenaean naval stronghold of Salamis, the island where one of the greatest recorded battles of antiquity took place.

In spite of the fact that the Slavic settlement in Greece has not yet been completely elaborated, a sufficient attention has been paid to it in research of various scientific branches. Archaeological research is slowly and gradually completing the picture already longer known from written and linguistic sources.

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture rejoices in the recovery of the priceless collection of artifacts stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth in 1990. Illustrated catalogue.

American Journal of Archaeology 106(4). The proposal is made that lining the court here was a long pillared portico of two adjoining sections.

Photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens by Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein of the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University.

Investigation of the 2 km canal built by King Xerxes across a isthmus on the Athos peninsula in northern Greece to allow his fleet safe access into the Aegean in advance of the Persian invasion of the early fifth century BCE.

An interdisciplinary archaeological project studying life in Sphakia, Crete, from the time that people arrived in the area (by ca 3000 BCE), until the end of Ottoman rule in AD 1900. It involves the use of environmental, archaeological, documentary, and local information collected over a 13-year period.

An expandable plan and picture tour of the great Minoan palace on the island of Crete built c.1600 B.C. from Daedalus Informatics.

A marble inscription proporting to prove the Illyrian ethnic origin of ancient Macedonians and the location of their first capital Aigai in Edessa.

Excavation of a sites on the island of Mochlos and its adjacent coastal plain in eastern Crete, sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Athens.