In the middle of the Cyclades archipelago, off the coast of the Greek island of Delos, archaeologists are exploring the ruins of a once-thriving urban neighbourhood and port, just 1.5-2m below the water’s surface. The new UrbaNetworks project, led by Principal Investigator Dr Mantha Zarmakoupi, and funded by the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship scheme, is excavating the Stadion District – one of the new neighbourhoods built up during a time of vast urbanisation in the late Hellenistic period. The remains are evidence of the island’s rise to wealth and power during the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.
Excavating the Highlands