Collection of Antiquities of Thera
There are few fragmentarily preserved attestations to the habitation of Akrotiri during the 5th millennium B.C.
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“The Antikythera Shipwreck: The ship – the treasures – the Mechanism”
All antiquities recovered in 1900-1901 and 1976 from the legendary shipwreck off the islet of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnese, will be presented for the […]
Collection of Antiquities of Thera
The Thera Room draws the attention of visitors mainly through the celebrated wall paintings, the "Spring Fresco" with the sparrows and the lilies, the "Boxing Children Fresco" and the "Antelope Fresco".
Once upon a time in the Aegean..
Bronze dagger with riverside landscape decoration National Archaeological Museum, Collection of Mycenaean Antiquities, inv. no. P 765 Provenance: Mycenae, Grave […]
“Ancient hot-water bottles”
The Unseen Museum is the well-known exhibition project of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens that brings to the fore […]
Announcement
We would like to inform you that during the March 2023, maintenance work will be carried out in the galleries […]
Art exhibition of Maria Iliopoulou “Ancient Greek Art in the Museums of the World” at the National Archaeological Museum’s Cafe
Exhibition of copies or works inspired mainly by the Laconic Art and the Art of Taranto (colony of Sparta) […]
The Greeks united fill the stadiums
Bronze portrait head from a boxer’s statue National Archaeological Museum, Collection of Metalwork, inv. no. X 6439 Provenance: Sanctuary […]
When the sea turns into a vast watery grave …
Far beyond the skyline there is a shipwreck, really far and we neither know those that drowned nor their friends […]
Panorama of personalities
Kyriakos Pittakis Kyriakos Pittakis, the first Greek Ephor of Antiquities, dedicated his life to the rescue, conservation and publication of […]