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Ancient Greek Underwater Settlement Found in Peloponnese
A large underwater ancient Greek settlement of the 3rd millennium BC was brought to light by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and the University of Geneva under the auspices of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Argolis, Peloponnese.
The research...
Archaeology
Search on in Greece for Europe's Oldest Village
ATHENS, (AP) - Archaeologists seeking traces of what could be Europe's oldest settlement in waters off southern Greece say they have located promising indications of human activity and sections of a deep-sunken prehistoric coastline.
Greece's Culture Ministry said Friday the...
Archaeology
Swiss Researchers Seek Prehistoric Greek Village
The world's largest solar boat, the catamaran PlanetSolar, is to embark on a Greek mission to find one of the oldest sites inhabited by man in Europe, an organiser said on Monday.
Starting on August 11, a team of Swiss...
Archaeology
Argolic Gulf: The Atlantis of Greece
Scientists from Greece and Switzerland will take part in the PlanetSolar 2014 expedition in the Argolic Gulf , Greece in an effort to discover the most ancient submerged village in Europe.
This new expedition called TerraSubmersa is organized by the Laténium in Neuchâtel, Switzerland,...
Archaeology
Greeks were Seafood Lovers since the Prehistoric Era
The sea has been plentiful dating back to prehistoric times, providing Greeks with tasty offerings such as sargos, groupers and scorpionfish, which to this day remain favorites. Shells were used to make jewelry and researchers are now amazed to...
Greece
New Evidence Suggests Ice-Age Mariners May Have Been Extracting Volcanic Rocks from Aegean Sea
A new technique which dates Obsidian, (a black or gray volcanic stone that is hard and sharp like glass) has shed new light on whether mariners were mining for the mineral-like stone in the Aegean sea much earlier than...