Over the past two and a half decades, archaeologists have excavated the acropolis, city, and necropolis of ancient Eleutherna under the direction of famous archaeologist Nicholas Stampolidis. Occupation dates from the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000 B.C.) to the Middle Ages (12th-13th century A.D.).

Although the cemetery is filled with skeletons, the tranquil site is teeming with life, including an orchestra of chirping cicadas and a troupe of yellow butterflies dancing in the ever-present gentle breeze.

Additional information about the site, featuring video interviews with Stampolidis and important team members, will soon be available online.

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Stampolidis examines some of the season’s most important finds from the burial shown in Photo 3, including a jar whose handle is braided like a woman’s hair and a piece of finely worked gold still encrusted with dirt (and fragments of one of the women’s bones), awaiting cleaning and conservation.

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