Zea Harbour Project

22/03/2024

NICE - Smithsonian Magazine bought and brought the article - its nice to know that this - one of our most research reults - is getting out there :)

Lechaion Harbour Project
Carlsbergfondet
Augustinus Fonden
Danish Institute at Athens

Archaeological discoveries add 500 years to the history of Corinth's main harbor

19/01/2024

Le Monde also published an English version of Lechaion Harbour Project's ground breaking – and may I add – first hardcore scientific results of Late Bronce Age and Dark Age harbour activity in Europe.

Kudos to Antoine Chabrol (Sorbonne University), Hugo Delile (CNRS, University of Lyon) and everybody else involved!
- full article in comments

Carlsbergfondet
Augustinus Fonden
Danish Institute at Athens

An international team of archaeologists working on the origins of the ancient port – dated to the seventh century BC – has discovered that it was in operation half a millennium before that time, in the Bronze Age.

17/01/2024

We are very happy that millions of Japanese have and will watch this NHK national documentary on ancient Greece’s sea power and proud the Ephorate recommended our particpation - this is just a small clip of the Piraeus segment 🙂

Carlsbergfondet
Danish Institute at Athens
Ναυτικό Μουσείο της Ελλάδος
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
René Christensen

13/12/2023

Lechaion Harbour Project

The ground breaking – and may I add – first hardcore scientific results of Late Bronce Age and Dark Age harbour activity in Europe is featured in Le Monde today by renowned science journalist Pierre Barthélémy – and I am so happy that he describes our team as international :)

Kudos to Antoine Chabrol (Sorbonne University), Hugo Delile (CNRS, University of Lyon) and everybody else involved!

- full article in comments

Carlsbergfondet
Augustinus Fonden
Danish Institute at Athens

Une équipe internationale d’archéologues travaillant sur les origines du port antique, datées du VIIᵉ siècle avant notre ère, a découvert qu’il était en activité un demi-millénaire avant cette époque, à l’âge du bronze.

16/11/2023

Dear Friend of the Zea Harbour Project- here you can watch Panos Athanasopoulos' November 14th lecture (in Greek) - "Ανασκάπτοντας αρχαία λιμάνια. Οι περιπτώσεις του Πειραιά και του Λεχαίου Κορινθίας" (beginning time stamp 39:40) - at the prestigious National Hellenic Research Foundation.

Carlsbergfondet
Lechaion Harbour Project
Danish Institute at Athens
Augustinusfonden

Τρίτη 14 Νοεμβρίου 2023Πειρατεία και πειρατές στην αρχαιότητα: Αγκυροβόλια και ορμητήριαΔρ Βαγγέλης Σαμαράς, Μεταδιδάκτορας Ερευνητής ΕΚΠΑ, Επιστημονικός Υπε...

13/11/2023

Tomorrow - November 14th - Panos Athanasopoulos will lecture (in Greek) on our excavations at Lechaion and in the Piraeus at the the prestigious National Hellenic Research Foundation at 19:00.

Title - "Ανασκάπτοντας αρχαία λιμάνια. Οι περιπτώσεις του Πειραιά και του Λεχαίου Κορινθίας"

Carlsbergfondet
Lechaion Harbour Project
Zea Harbour Project
Danish Institute at Athens
Augustinusfonden

03/03/2023

This Wednesday Bjørn Lovén presented the results of the Zea Harbour Project for a sold out 450 people venue.

Thank you very much for the invitation Mogens Trolle

Carlsbergfondet

09/02/2023

Article on our discoveries in Vietnamese :)

Carlsbergfondet

Cấu trúc lớn chứa hàng trăm tàu chiến ở một cảng biển gần Athens góp phần vào chiến thắng vang dội của quân đội Hy Lạp trước đế quốc Ba Tư cách đây hàng...

11/01/2023

Our book launch tomorrow is in the local news 🙂

Carlsbergfondet

Ο Δανός Αρχαιολόγος Bjorn Loven θα παρουσίασει στη Διάλεξη που θα γίνει στις 12.1.2023 και ώρα 19.00 στο Δανέζικο Ινστιτούτο Αθηνών (Ερεφόντος 14,Πλάκα) τα νέα ευρύηματα για τα α....