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By Professor Vassos Karageorghis Former Director of the Department of Antiquities of the Republic of Cyprus Consultant for the Cesnola Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thursday, April 26, 2001 The lecturer examines "Homeric" conditions in the archaeological record of Cyprus, both during the 11th - 10th centuries B.C., and later during the 8th - 7th centuries B.C., mainly illustrated by the discoveries in the "royal" necropolis of Salamis. Professor Karageorghis also discusses similar conditions prevailing elsewhere in the Mediterranean, namely in the Aegean and Etruria. The role of the Phoenicians in interconnections in the Mediterranean is also examined. In cooperation with the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus.
By Professor Christos Doumas Director of Excavations at Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini) Professor of Archaeology Emeritus at the University of Athens Tuesday April 3, 2001 The excavations at Thera (Santorini) are renowned for the abundance of the finds recovered daily from the ruins of the Late Bronze Age city buried under thick deposits of volcanic material produced by an eruption in the 17th or 16th century BC.
The purpose of this lecture was to show some of the evidence discovered during the last five years that either corroborates already existing views, especially in chronological matters, or reveals new facets of Theran society just before the eruption. Moreover, recent discoveries suggest that Thera emerged as a cosmopolitan harbor town of the Middle Bronze Age thanks to its close relations with the Northeast Aegean islands during the Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC). Professor Doumas is in the United States lecturing at Universities in the framework of the Onassis Foundation (USA) University Seminars Program.