Archaeological congress opens; "no further Amphipolis announcements this year"
The annual congress presenting results from archaeological work in Macedonia and Thrace opened its works on Thursday (05/03/2015) at the University of Thessaloniki (UTh) on a low-key note and with the announcement that there would be no new announcements about the sensational Amphipolis tomb this year.
Opening the congress, UTh prehistoric archaeology professor Stelios Andreou told the 28th annual meeting that 2014 was marked by archaeology taking on a very public character - "one however that took the features of a media event. From early August almost to Christmas, during a time when there was no dearth of critical issues in Greece and the world, an excavation monopolised news almost entirely, publicly and privately," he said.
He added, "This year the excavators (of Kasta Tomb at Amphipolis) declared they are not ready for the first presentation of basic archaeological information and their preliminary theories at the congress, so we must be patient."
The congress was declared open by the UTh rector Pericles Mitkas and will be completed by Saturday, after 95 presentations.
On Thursday, findings presented include artefacts from the burial of a girl - gold earrings, beads and the only mirror ever found in Aegae. It depicts in relief a winged Eros, in the form of a child flying over to hug the god Dionysus.
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