Archaeological Sites of the Mediterranean Sea

Ancient City of Athens
From Kevin T. Glowacki, a new site on the archaeology and history of Athens, including lots of photographs and a handful of his essays.

Ancient Ephesus
From Umit Yoruk at the Kusadesi web site, a vast wealth of information on the ancient city of Ephesus.

The Parthenon Marbles
Images of sculptures from the Parthenon, now housed at the British Museum.

Franchthi Cave
First occupied during the Middle Paleolithic sometime between 35,000 and 30,000 years ago, Franchthi Cave was the site of human occupation, pretty much consistently up until about the final Neolithic Period about 3000 BC.

Phorades
Early and Middle Bronze Age copper extraction and smelting site, from the Sydney Cyprus Survey Project; contains an extended discussion of copper production.

Pompeii: Buried Beneath the Ages
The most famous archaeological site in the world is not hard to name. If there has ever been a site as well preserved, as evocative, as memorable as that of Pompeii, the Roman city buried under the ash and lava erupted by Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD.

Yeronisos, Cyprus
Yeronisos has been the target of archaeological study by New York University since 1990, and important occupations during the Chalcolithic and Ptolemaic periods.