Category Archives: archaeology

Pavlopetri – City beneath the waves.

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

 It must be Greek season on UK television – and we do need some good press, so we are very grateful; the BBC  just aired  its documentary about the Pavlopetri excavations currently taking place in the shallow water off the southern-most … Continue reading →

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New additions to the Villa collection

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

My father, Panos Gratsos,  was a respected bibliophile whose collection of antiquarian books on Greece, the Ottoman Empire and the Ionian was sold at Sotheby’s in 1991 with much fanfare, and the books from which were snapped up by other … Continue reading →

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Odysseus’ Palace found!

Posted on August 29, 2010 by

Finally, over a hundred years since Schliemann, convinced he had found the location of Odysseus and Penelope’s home, first excavated the site of Aetos on Ithaca, a team of architects from the University of Yannina have uncovered a three storey Mycenean building that … Continue reading →

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