So, Internet has been down for a LOOOONG time. Something about the splitter...and then we were restricted to only using the WiFi after 9 PM (here) so that we wouldn't tie up archaeological stuff.
But really my Friday went kinda quickly. We found a few more rocks, but nothing important really.
Saturday was our day off. We went to Karathona Beach, just outside of Naphlio. Is was BEAUUUUTIFUL! The water was so blue and there wasn't really all that much ocean life (like Jellyfishes) to have to deal with. A group of us took the bus down (which took almost two whole hours but cost about six Euros less than a taxi) and hung out at the beach for the majority of the afternoon. The salt content is so high that you can float really easily and Karathona is in an inlet within a harbor, so there was hardly any wake to deal with. Got some sun, but all around it was a great day off.
Sunday we went up to the new site of Gla, up in northern Greece near Thebes. It took about three hours, but we picked up the team of graduate students that were working on preparing that site. It will go active next summer and I can't wait! The site is virtually unexcavated and untouched. The site is possibly the ruins of a citadel belonging to two different rulers that lived side-by-side in possibly two separate but comparable megarons. It's about 5x the size of the citadel at Mycenae, but unfortunately is covered entirely in really prickly, nasty brush. It will have to be cleared before we can properly excavate, and they haven't been able to do as much as they would've liked so far. So next summer looks like more yard work than excavation, but there is still potential to make some awesome finds. There was a room with a collapsed roof that all of us were just itching to get into, only nobody could figure out how the hell we were going to get a crane up on the citadel to lift the damn thing! Listening to Professor Maggidis and Antonia (who was in charge of those clearing Gla) talk about it...well it was like a kid in a candy shop.
After Gla we drove another hour to the site at Delphi. I've been to Delphi before, but this time we climbed all the way up to the top of the site to the stadium where they hosted the Pythian Games, in honour of Pythian Apollo. MAN is it a hike! Looking down to where the tholos stood near the training area for the athletes, they probably would've had to hike all the way up the mountain the night before and camp there to be completely rested for the events. Seeing everything after doing Delphi as a project for Professor Maggidis's Olympic Games course, it gives you a whole new perspective. I could give little interesting tidbits, such as how there were actuall two other temples before the current one, and how the stadium was just short of 200 meters long and the marjority of the seating was from the Hellenistic period, after the Greek high Classical period.
All around, Sunday was a long day and getting up Monday morning was painful...
We finished clearing off the surface layer and took some pictures and were planning on drawing out the rocks that we'd found, but never had the time to. However, we did find the Red Death in our northwestern corner. Dun dun duuuunn!
But really my Friday went kinda quickly. We found a few more rocks, but nothing important really.
Saturday was our day off. We went to Karathona Beach, just outside of Naphlio. Is was BEAUUUUTIFUL! The water was so blue and there wasn't really all that much ocean life (like Jellyfishes) to have to deal with. A group of us took the bus down (which took almost two whole hours but cost about six Euros less than a taxi) and hung out at the beach for the majority of the afternoon. The salt content is so high that you can float really easily and Karathona is in an inlet within a harbor, so there was hardly any wake to deal with. Got some sun, but all around it was a great day off.
Sunday we went up to the new site of Gla, up in northern Greece near Thebes. It took about three hours, but we picked up the team of graduate students that were working on preparing that site. It will go active next summer and I can't wait! The site is virtually unexcavated and untouched. The site is possibly the ruins of a citadel belonging to two different rulers that lived side-by-side in possibly two separate but comparable megarons. It's about 5x the size of the citadel at Mycenae, but unfortunately is covered entirely in really prickly, nasty brush. It will have to be cleared before we can properly excavate, and they haven't been able to do as much as they would've liked so far. So next summer looks like more yard work than excavation, but there is still potential to make some awesome finds. There was a room with a collapsed roof that all of us were just itching to get into, only nobody could figure out how the hell we were going to get a crane up on the citadel to lift the damn thing! Listening to Professor Maggidis and Antonia (who was in charge of those clearing Gla) talk about it...well it was like a kid in a candy shop.
After Gla we drove another hour to the site at Delphi. I've been to Delphi before, but this time we climbed all the way up to the top of the site to the stadium where they hosted the Pythian Games, in honour of Pythian Apollo. MAN is it a hike! Looking down to where the tholos stood near the training area for the athletes, they probably would've had to hike all the way up the mountain the night before and camp there to be completely rested for the events. Seeing everything after doing Delphi as a project for Professor Maggidis's Olympic Games course, it gives you a whole new perspective. I could give little interesting tidbits, such as how there were actuall two other temples before the current one, and how the stadium was just short of 200 meters long and the marjority of the seating was from the Hellenistic period, after the Greek high Classical period.
All around, Sunday was a long day and getting up Monday morning was painful...
We finished clearing off the surface layer and took some pictures and were planning on drawing out the rocks that we'd found, but never had the time to. However, we did find the Red Death in our northwestern corner. Dun dun duuuunn!