that's a wrap! Naxos Quarry Project 2026 has officially come to a close after an intense and really fascinating few weeks working on Palatia islet, the site of the famous 'Portara.' Check out our work - incl posts from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social students - on our website naxosquarryproject.org
Evan Levine
@levine.bsky.social
Archaeology @ Copenhagen U. Greek Islands, Ancient Prisons, & Digital Humanities. Bouncing between 🇬🇷 🇩🇰 🇬🇧
🚨New Publication Alert🚨 For 2,500 years, the Cycladic island of Polyaigos has been described as uninhabited, but its archaeology tells a much more interesting story. Our new article on the archaeology of Polyaigos is available open access at doi.org/10.1086/741063 🏺🇬🇷
🚨double publication alert! 🚨 This year's issue of the Journal of Greek Archaeology is all about airborne #lidar in Mediterranean #archaeology, & I'm thrilled to have not one, but two open access contributions! The issue is full of excellent papers and available at doi.org/10.32028/jga... 1/3 🏺🇬🇷
small islands : BIG paper Want to know more about the fascinating #archaeology of #Greece’s Cycladic islands? We’ve just published the results of fieldwork on 14 small islands & each one tells an amazing story about island life over the past 6,000 years! Check it out: doi.org/10.2972/hes.... 🏺🇬🇷
Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as: 🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe ⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship 🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia & much more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Excited to see the Naxos Quarry Project on the cover of @antiquity.ac.uk! Head to bit.ly/48yvshj to read our article about using cutting edge tools to study ancient marble quarries in #Greece & check out the rest of the issue to learn more about the most exciting #archaeology happening today🏺⛏️
📢 Event reminder! 📆 Tue 4 Nov 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR) 📍 online only 🔗 For more details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../rebecca-...
📕 #BookReview Anastasia Christophilopoulou (ed.)'s 'Islands and communities: perspectives on insularity, connectivity, and belonging' explores island communities in the Mediterranean to re-evaluate concepts of insularity, connectivity and mobility 1/2 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Another amazing mini-season with the @bsrome.bsky.social team, finding new ways for geophysics to teach us about the intersection of agriculture, marble extraction, and urbanism in the ancient Cyclades! 🏺🇬🇷
This past week, the archaeology team @stephenkay.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @levine.bsky.social & Sara Fabbri returned to Paros, Greece, for a second season of geophysical survey.
New fieldwork this week on Paros, #Greece! 🏺 🏛️ Ground-Penetrating Radar survey adjacent to excavations at #Hellenistic and #Roman houses and a sculpture workshop. 3D modelling of structural remains will also tie in with subsurface features captured by radar. /1
Check out this new #MethodsPaper completely FREE: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
An interdisciplinary workflow for the comprehensive study of ancient quarried landscapes | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
An interdisciplinary workflow for the comprehensive study of ancient quarried landscapes
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Marble from the island of Naxos was used for some of the most beautiful monuments from the ancient Greek world–but how were huge blocks like these quarried 2,500 years ago? Check out our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk at bit.ly/4h9AVik to learn how we're developing new ways to study old quarries 🏺🇬🇷
Marble from the island of Naxos was used for some of the most beautiful monuments from the ancient Greek world–but how were huge blocks like these quarried 2,500 years ago? Check out our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk at bit.ly/4h9AVik to learn how we're developing new ways to study old quarries 🏺🇬🇷
There's always something interesting happening in Mediterranean island archaeology 🏝️🏺 Visit bit.ly/42C3E9A to learn how archaeology, museum exhibitions, documentary films, and community outreach converge to teach us about life in Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, and the Cyclades!
❗️Our recent work around the #ancient tower at Palaiopyrgos (Paros) is published in JAS Reports 🎉 🏺 We used multi-method #survey & #geophysical prospection to better understand landscapes of #agriculture and production in the rural #Cyclades. READ OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
In Athens & dying to learn more about ancient marble quarrying on beautiful Cycladic islands? Come learn about the first two seasons of the Naxos Quarry Project – a new interdisciplinary study of the island's amazing marble quarries with some really interesting results! 🇬🇷🏺
Excited to contribute to a new effort by The Classical Review to review digital projects in Classics & Archaeology 🏺🏛️ I had the chance to dive into the revamped Sphakia Survey Internet Edition & its longlasting impact on Mediterranean survey archaeology. Read more at bit.ly/43pILj7 🇬🇷
The next ‘Revisiting the #Ancient Mediterranean in the British #Museum’ seminar looks at the display of site-specific material, using the e.g. of temple at #Bassai 🏛️ 🏺 All welcome! Please join for panel & discussion. 🗓️ 26 March, 4pm 📍 Senate House, London REGISTER: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/revis...
Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Bassai
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Thinking about the tiny island of Anydros, 30km from Santorini & the epicenter of an earthquake phenomenon that has rocked the southern Cyclades over the past few days. Anydros is beautiful & we were lucky to document its amazing archaeology, featured today in @kathimerini.gr: bit.ly/4guaWA4 🏺🇬🇷
What can the archaeology of ancient prisons teach us about incarceration & punishment from the Romans to today? Check out our new publication in Early Christianity that explores the impact of the Prison Project at @ucph.bsky.social. Read it at doi.org/10.1628/ec-2... and dm if you need access 🏺🇩🇰
Some highlights from the excellent Silk Road exhibition at the British Museum: 1: Varakhsha palace fresco, Bukhara 8th c. 2: world’s oldest chess pieces(!), Samarkand 8th c. 3: ivory diptych, Constantinople 6th c. 4: Manichaean image of Christ(?), Dunhuang 9th c.
Need a break from the big city? How about a quick trip to the beautiful island of Aegina 🏺🇬🇷
rainy nights, city sprawl, & one very old stadium 🏺🌙 December in Athens 🇬🇷
There's nothing better on a Friday night in Athens than hearing about Pirates, Exiles, & all of the archaeology that makes the Cyclades a fascinating part of Greece 🇬🇷 Instead of a beautiful dinner, a romantic walk around the Acropolis, or a late night at the club, join me at the Danish Institute! 🏺
A snowy November day in Copenhagen is the perfect excuse for a quick trip to the incredible Thorvaldsen Museum! One of the most beautiful museums in a city full of them, it's entirely dedicated to the life & art of Denmark's most iconic sculptor. What's inside? Let's take a look in this 🧵! 🏺🇩🇰
Writing about a beautiful day of fieldwork in the Cyclades is particularly painful when London decided to do this today ❄️ 🏺 #greece #archaeology
What was life like for criminals, prisoners, & captives in the Roman Empire? Here's a sneak peek for an upcoming exhibition where we explore the archaeology of imprisonment in the ancient Mediterranean! 🔒🏺 #archaeology #Greece
Long-awaited fieldwork on Paros, #Greece, with an absolute superstar @ics.bsky.social, BSR and AAIA team! #Geophysics & #archaeological documentation at the so-called #Hellenistic Palaiopyrgos tower and its landscape funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. 🏺 🗃️ 🧵 /1