Archaeological Sites in Greece

In 1875, German archaeologist Ernst Curtius realized one of his life long dreams: to excavate at the Greek site of Olympia, home of the ancient festival of Zeus. What he found there utlimately led to the re-institution of the Olympic Games.

Delos is the name of an island in the Aegean Sea, which according to the Greek legends, is the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

The site of Delphi is the location of a classic Panhellenic sanctuary of Greece, first occupied in the early Archaic period.

Janice Siegel has assembled several illustrated guides to sites in Greece.

A nicely organized site of excavations at the Greek and Roman site of Isthmia, from Ohio State University.

The island of Kephallenia has the ruins of four Greek cities, Pale (near Lixouri), Krane (at Argostoli, the modern capital), Same (today's Sami), and Pronnoi, an inland city (supported by coastal Poros). The Centre of World Archaeology has been conducting archaeological studies there since the early 1990s.

In fifth-century B.C. Greek historian Thucydides detailed the panic caused by the plague, which struck Athens and Sparta in 430 and lasted two years, killing nearly a third of the populace. Recent excavations near a subway in Athens may have found one of the mass burial sites, an article in Archaeology magazine.

Surely one of the most important of the Greek archaeological sites; a description of the Palace at Knossos, from your guide.

A classical Greek site, located between Halkídha and Erétria on the western coast of Evia, and occupied almost continuously from the Early Bronze Age to about 700 BC.

Over 1500 photographs of by Leo C. Curran (SUNY Buffalo) of ancient Greece and Rome.

Mitrou is a Bronze Age and early Iron Age archaeological site located on a small tidal islet in the North Euboean Gulf of Greece, about 65 kilometers northwest of Lefkandi.

The sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia located in the western Peloponnese was, aside from Delphi, the most important sanctuary of ancient Greece. From the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

The archaeological site of Olympia is a Panhellenic sanctuary in Greece, excavated in the mid-19th century by Edward Curtius.

An ship wrecked off the coast of Turkey near an area called Tektas Burnu between 450 and 425 B.C. has been excavated by the Texas A&M University for three years. This site is a discussion of the findings to date.