The fantastical beasts of ancient Greece

Alastair Sooke

The archaiostronomia may provide the solution to the mystery of mound of Amphipolis

Mina's speech She on “The Archaeoastronomy in the interpretation of archaeological finds historical references”

Ομιλία του Μηνά Τσικριτσή με θέμα "Η Αρχαιοαστρονομία στην ερμηνεία αρχαιολογικών ευρημάτων ιστορικών αναφορών"
The findings but Kritomykinaϊka dating historical events based on the interpretation of astronomical symbolism is expected to be discussed and analyzed in the speech "the Archaeoastronomy in the interpretation of archaeological findings and historical reports ', they will perform in Heraklion, Saturday 14 February, at 7 afternoon in the Municipal Hall of Androgeo, Dr. Minas Tsikritsis.

The event, organized by the Association "Minoan Culture and Scriptures", will prologistei and coordinated by the University Professor, George Nikolakaki.

The theme of the speech is associated :

(A)) the interpretation of astronomical symbolism in Kritomykinaϊka findings,

(B)) with dating historical events (Trojan War) and persons (Orpheus, Thiveos Hercules), as well as historical references (establishment of Alexandria, Alexander, Göbekli Tepe – Sirius) based on astronomical phenomena.

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In previous Article We became the first national report on the possibilities of archaioastronomias

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N. Xydakis: Culture is an engine for growth

Open letter to the citizens of Amphipolis People-what you seek from the Ministry of Culture

(A)noikti letter – appeal to the Minister of culture n. Xydakis sent branded citizens of Serres, asking him to support the effort of the archaeological site and the scientific work of archaeologists. Details of the letter:

Mr President-in-Office

In response to your recent interview on "Step" and your report on the excavation of Amphipolis, as citizens of Serres, friends of Amphipolis, We appeal to seamlessly continue the excavation project in the Hill Kasta and maintenance work, study and promotion of excavation findings.

To protect the total scientific work of the archaeological service of Serres from any political considerations and "fraternal" emerging rivalries, undermining and interventions.

To exclude any case special supervision, They challenge directly the great scientific work and great offer of Mrs Peristeri and associates.

We ask for your full support and support to scientific – excavation team , in order to complete and return to Greece but also the global community the unique value monument.

This is particularly necessary now, modeled severe developmental suggestions , mild recovery of the overall archaeological site of Amphipolis and the wider region of Western Paggaio.

Already with the collaboration of DIAZWMATOS, and support agencies and citizens of the region, expropriated the site of the ancient theatre of Amphipolis and expected immediate promotion of yet another great monument.

Wishing every success in the difficult task that you, We assure you that both the signatories of this letter, and the whole feel of local actors, We are at the disposal of the Ministry for effective cooperation and voluntary.

With price

VAFEIADIS VASILIS, painter
BOZIKAS GIORGOS, researcher of folklore, Center Hellenic Folklore Research of the Academy of Athens
GIANNOGLOYDIS VASILIS, educator
THODOROS GRIGORIADIS, author
DIMITRIOS DIMOUDIS, President of the society for the study and research of history of Serres (E.M.E.I.S.)
ELEFTHERIADOU STELLA, Chairman of the Lyceum Club of Greek women of Serres
EMMANOUILIDOU KAITI, President of the Club Serron for UNESCO
EYTHYMOPOYLOS DIMITRIOS, President of the Association of friends of Arts and literature of Serres
THWMATIKOS GRIGORIS, journalist
KALOGEROYDIS GIANNIS, Director development company of Serres
KARTERIS GIORGOS, author
KAFTANTZIS VASILIS, Doctor
MALLIAS GIORGOS, former Deputy Commander of Mount Athos
MANDILIWTIS ZISIS, photographer
MENTIS PANAGIOTIS, playwright, Artistic Director of IP ISSUES.. Serron
MITLIAGKAS ZISIS, philologist,, PR. Mayor Serron
BASDANIS ATHANASIOS, Chairman of public Central Library of Serres
NANIOPOYLOS ARISTOTELIS, Professor of A.u.th., President of the Association "People City"
PANTELIS PAYLIDIS, composer
PAVLIDIS AVRAAM, photographer
PASHALIS KOSTANTINOS, Entrepreneur,author
SAOYLIDIS STELIOS, PR. Director E. R. A.. Serron
SPYRIDOU GIOULI, history Club President "ORFEAS" Serres
TSABDAROGLOY CHARALAMPOS, Architect
CHATZOPOULOS TAKIS, Director

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The ancestors of the Greeks in China

oi progonoi twn ellinwn stin kina-boudas me ellinika ftera nikis

Typical, Alexander conquered and held the Empire of Darius for just nine years (334-323 e.g.), but the shock brought about in the history of this world was to keep centuries. Thanks to the glory of his name, the epigoni succeeded after his death to keep it for two centuries the feuds that shared, Despite continuous wars between them.

Feature is that the Persuader who had taken over the Indian dominions in the Indus Valley and the Eydemos who had taken command of the Punjab were left at their possessions as the 316 e.g., to get their place the Indian dynasty of Tsantragkoypta Maoyria. As the first century BC.- tells us the story- the dominions of the West conquered the Romans and those of the East, the successors of the Persians, Parthians.

In spite of the story though, the Greeks managed to set up in the lands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the EllinoBaktriano Kingdom (206-140 e.g.) and to expand East, recommending the Greco-Indian Kingdom (180 e.g.- 10 a.d.)

Then, with the first waves of the Huns (Xion Wildebeest for Chinese) to sweep everything, He finished the power game of the Greeks.

As for the Chinese… We knew only that the soldiers of Eythydimoy (with its capital Antioch the Margiani and base of Alexandria the Capital) they explore the wilds in current Chinese Turkestan. Strabo wrote that the Greek-Baktrianoi "extended their empire away as China and toads.

But details about commercial relationships not indicated. The Chinese knew them indirectly by the Romans, because those sell silk in Parthoys and the Parthians in Romans. The contact was immediate after the 14 a.d., When the Greek master Eypalos August in Admiral showed how to exploit the monsoons to shortens the trip to India.

In accordance with the Chinese files, as the 2nd century Greek sailors had arrived in Viet Nam and the 166 a.d. visited the Imperial Court of Juan What, as envoys of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Since then and as the Marco Polo (1266 a.d.) the Europeans knew that the landlubber road for China was in the hands of the Huns and the Mongols.

Paradoxes, coincidences and twists

This consolidated picture of isolation of China upset dramatically in recent years, from the intersection of both historical and archaeological findings.

According to the file history of Chinese priest's wife Shima, Emperor Wu decided the 138 e.g.. to send the priest's wife Zhang's Ambassador to the people of the West, searching for allies against the Huns.

He, After the unfortunate arrest and ten years of captivity at the hands of the Huns, escaped and crossed the Taklamakan desert to meet… the «Ntaϊoyan» (Danaoi;). It was whites without slanting eyes and had beards. It was wonderful horse breeders, had very beautiful buildings and statues, requires with respect to women and… the listening.

The area had 60.000 families and 30.000 soldiers. Based on geographical coordinates which give the priest's wife in the report of Zhang, the city encountered was Alexandria eschate, in Sogdian Ferganas and limits, the passage of Pamir.

The very strange thing is that in this city already cut coins with a technique that knew only Chinese. Specific, the Kings Agathocles and Pantaleon were released- around 170 e.g.. – the first Western "white copper" coin, copper alloy- nickel in proportion 75/25. Apparently, Some had he could make imports…

Zhang moved on to Bactria and arrived as the India. Returned- After one more captive at the hands of the Huns- and informed the emperor for the wondrous saw.

The Emperor is mainly interested in the purchase of horses who were Greeks, but along with that started the alisberisi that, in the 19th century, He was baptized by the German scholar von Richthofen «Silk Road».

The Greeks replaced then the Scythians, who piezomenoi from the Huns invaded Bactria and India, to create his empire Kusan, until the area seized by China (70 a.d.).

The caravans were leaving from China with silk, pottery and ironware and returned with gold, Ivory and glass objects. However the attacks from bandits were common. Trade protection, the brand new great wall was extended West, as the Taklamakan desert.

The scars and the big surprise

The passage of caravans from the desert this over the centuries left numerous signs behind him. The first Western scholars who arrived in the region in 1900- the Swedish geographer Sven Iedin and the Hungarian Aurel Stein- they found a lot of them, as and 2.000 manuscripts that dime novels chronicling the routes of the Silk Road in the previous centuries.

Following the road in regions of China, found everywhere influenced by Greek art:

Geometric designs on textiles and ceramics, winged horse statues, depictions of the Buddha with Angel Wings… but also paintings with Greek soldiers and Centaurs.

Greek letters inscribed on metal currency from Chinese, fresco of a Greek soldier, woven with Centaur, a white dimetroy Mummy with funerary mask, Buddhist monk with Western features and blue eyes,

Buddha with Greek wings of victory… All is ruins in China, pieces of the saga of pioneers in opening the road towards this.

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That was "beauty of Loulan" is from the oldest mummies found in the Tarim basin from the Loulan located at the end East of the egg shaped the Takla Makan desert.

Many modern archaeologists insist that the clay army, that accompanied the 210 e.g.. the Emperor Qin's grave, had the inspiration of Greek statues!

[The clay Army numbers 8.099 Statues depicting forms of humans and horses at their natural dimensions. Each form has different characteristics with excellent details on face and hair!

The clay Army who is considered one of the most important archaeological discoveries of our century and discovered in 1974, randomly from a farmer in the region. A few years earlier had come to light the mausoleum of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, in Xian area.

According to estimates of the Duan Kingkmpo, Head of the excavations, the mausoleum's design was inspired by the Ancient Halicarnassus in Asia minor and was a part of cosmopolitan since the workmen came from central or Western Asia and acrobats from Burma.

Emperor Qin, the man who United China for the first time, He is buried between the clay army, as the soldiers of, the guarding for centuries! The clay Army made the 210 eg and calculated that it took 700.000 workers and 38 years for the construction of!

From the 1987 It is on the list of Unesco World Heritage!]

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Rare ancient coin auction in China

VOUDAS… ARSAKEIOS
Chinese Chronicles mention that one of the first preachers of indogenoys Buddhism in China was the If Singkao. It was noble origin, from the Royal House of Anxi, of his country.

The name is rendered in Anxi Chinese Arsakis name, the well-known dynasty that reigned in Parthoys between the 240 e.g.. and of the 224 a.d., with its capital Antioch Margiani (or Merv). Shortly after the If Sigkao, in the second half of the 2nd century a.d., Another Buddhist missionary to China had "ARSAKEIO name», the If Xoyan.

Also, at the same time, appeared in the Armenian team Ntaron Buddhists from India, for whom the scholar (e). Seldeslachts claims that at least two heads were Greeks of former Greco-Indian Kingdom.—

It was the Apostles these creations of global crisis, a fusion of Greek philosophy with the peaceful way of life that taught the Indian "enlightened Blood Prince»;

But the big surprise came when I passed the "purgatory" of the cultural revolution, and China began to excavate the past of scientific: The Taklamakan desert was not only deserted.

Buried cities found beneath the dunes and tombs with mummies started coming to the surface. ekades mummies millennia, perfectly preserved by drought.

However… the dead were not Chinese! It was tall, kokkinomallides, with light colored eyes. The most old stemmed in 1800 e.g.. and the latest in 300 e.g..

Among them was a baby one year, that was in the position of its eyes light blue stones, and some women, the 4th and 3rd BC. century, who wore pointy hats as the Amazones

What was happening; Who were these people and how they lived in an area completely dry;

For the last question the answer is rather geological: The Taklamakan desert lies well below sea level and- in a previous era, with other climate- It was probably fertile valley with Lake.

Otherwise, the unexpected these findings- the Decade of the 1990- they created large minority problem in China.

The toyrkogeneis region's Uighurs began to say that the mummies show that descended from non-Chinese, the Tocharioys, Hence the surrounding country was supposed to become an autonomous. Everyone remembered the ancient Chinese myths about a white people in the West, Tall, with green and blue eyes, and beard bostrychwta.

After many tugs of war, the Chinese Government agreed to DNA testing done by a joint team of researchers from the universities of China, Sweden and the u.s..

The findings from the DNA cleared up one thing: The mummies had nothing to do with the Uyghurs Turks, who, moreover, had occupied the area once the 9th century a.d.

But no agreement was reached on any of the other. Anthropologists had found genomes mentioning once in the Crimean Kimmerioys Celts, Once in Kyrgyzstan and the Scythians to residents of Eastern Mediterranean.

What say archaeologists; Very simply, that the designs of the clothes of the dead have Greek art motifs. Indeed, one of the engraved funerary offerings must bear the symbol of the swastika.

Even more impressive, a mummy who found much further south of the desert in SW China's Gingkpan- dates from 1000 e.g., has a height of around 1.90(!) and carries a golden funeral mask, When the Habitat of Mikines
But… There is a historical junction;

We have never heard such a people; Searching in the texts of Pliny the Elder (XXIV, Taprobane) We find an unexpected description of Chinese, by an Ambassador of Ceylon, to the Emperor Claudius:

"My father has often visited their country. These people transcend their usual height people, have Auburn hair and blue eyes…». It should be noted that a visitor from Ceylon apparently will go to China by ship and port would work on the southwest side of, near Gingkpan.

After this, the imagination running riot. We Found, does, where have the mycenaeans, When migrated due to climate change after the Trojan war;

The texts of Hittite speak for Achigiaba (Achaeans) They proceeded battling through Syria. But the Cimmerians swept away those parts, to end up becoming the Parthians.

The amphora that was in town Nigia somewhere 640 kilometres southeast of the city, the residents of Kashgar 1993.

The discovery is not new, i.e. is neither of the above time. Goes quite back.

The British Explorer Sir orel Stein, strolling around China 1903 (106 years ago) heard from Chinese villagers for the existence of an ancient Greek city beneath large dunes.

News of the findings of the excavation was broadcast by the Chinese news agency and published first in Australia and then republished in the Greek press.

In ancient Greek language, the Chinese called SINES (Stama-Takou dictionary).

In the terminology of the word's interpretation of the SINIS katerimwnwn, the robber, the Snatcher

In the terminology of the same dictionary the word the SINOS interpreted as sore, blow, damage, bane.

SINOMAI means sylw terminology, lafyragwgw, diarpazw.

The gunman PITYOKAMPTIS proswpopoiimenos bane means SINIS (page 893) Property of PAPERS or Chinese as Ionians against terminator, Greeks, evidenced by the fact that while the southern China still called GIOYNAN i.e. IONIA, There's no longer any Jonas-Greek.

German archaeologists have demonstrated the existence of at least twelve Greek cities in China, before these archaeological missions deported.

The Chinese Government ordered cover archaeological sites with hills of soil where planted forests.

None of our politicians did not require the excavation of these sites from Greek archaeological expeditions from the Decade, though, of 1980, rekindled interest and so a group of Chinese and Japanese researchers started looking for the lost city Nigia somewhere 640 kilometers southeast of town residents of Kashgar.

Indeed after painstaking research they found beneath the dunes the ruins of the ancient city. In the process of excavation with great surprise found in the ruins of Greek style furniture. They found that, stele with meanderings, Greek urns with representations from the Homeric epics.

The us the dates back to the years of campaign alexandrine. The discovery had great interest. No historical evidence does not exist that indicate at least vaguely the presence of Greeks in this Chinese province.

A look at some types of anthrwpologikoys region of Eastern China has great interest in!!!

The strange is that in principle while the Taklamakan desert has a lot of attractions is not a tourist destination…Hidden desert by a lot of people why arage;

There are also evidence I greekness of findings(excluding thereby Scythians and other peoples of. The Mediterranean) and so the passage of Alexander m from there. Archaeologists report that designs of the clothes of the dead have ancient Greek motifs.

Especially a handmade sign on a grave, It is the ancient symbol of the swastika. Is it true the passage of Greeks from that area and if yes, then what were looking for in such a desert;

The existence of cities with Greek architecture and more the discovery of the dead with the Greek elements simply did not demonstrate that the Greeks from there, but made permanent installation.

What is the reason of such an instrument in that area, If there is no particular purpose and specific role that it should play the ones you installed there;

Does eventually these cities were forts and outposts and people's secret keepers;

What was this secret that drove the Great Commander to carry out this part of the campaign;

These questions lead us back to the school of Miezas and the teachings of Aristotle to the famous student of!

I wonder what exactly the information conveyed to the old Greek campaigns and what was looking then Dionysus.

What told him about the secrets that the desert and what instructions he gave to get there. You must also gave him instructions on what I had to do when I arrive there and this is easily explained by the existence of cities-outpost.

Be sure to mention the campaign of Dionysus and suggested this route as safer to approach the desert.

The expedition of Dionysus may prove( in spite of what scholars consider fiction born) from being almost dead with age 4000 times, among the mummies discovered in the Takla Makan.

Their age is approaching this chronology as referred to by the ancient Secretariat as appropriate for the expedition of Dionysus.

So a first conclusion that can be drawn from the above data, is that the m. Alexander attempted this piece of his campaign to inspect the projects left by Dionysus and to strengthen his own where there was need.

The most difficult point is the identification of the reason for creating these projects. What need drove to build cities in the middle of the desert and staffed by competent personnel, ready to give battles!

It is difficult to know exactly what these guards protected or what exactly prevented to escape from this area.

It is reasonable to think that such a tough area, that makes someone outposts-forts, playing the role of a prison type and has a very particular instruments/dangerous prisoners.

But what was hiding inside of this desert prison; We can never know with certainty, but Aristotle had definitely tell in the m. Alexander and this gave him the amazing momentum demonstrated during the campaign of. It becomes obvious, well, Takla Makan desert that hides many secrets and hazardous!

The elements that come to light reveal historical facts that seem able to overturn well-established positions on the history of the region and perhaps the world history!

Campaigns and plant populations in seasons prior to that pisteyontan so far and made by folks with high spiritual level.

Folks who had no relationship to the show with the natives and neither in their customs and traditions!

And finally the main point in all of this are the Greeks and their actions, with head of Alexander the great and Dionysus!!

Does, just, We found those who chased as the extremity of the Earth and the colonists, stealing even burial customs;

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The ancient gold of East Macedonia

In nature gold is mainly native and less in the form of compounds.
In the first case we have a natural alloy that may contain significant levels in silver and/or copper. ' O Tan silver levels exceed 25% called amber and when copper content is over 20% called chalkoychos gold.

Brendan Foley: Archeology Greece development lever

Illustration: Titina Chalmatzi.

How will be the future of archaeology; "If you like the police series, I would say that it looks like the CSI. The cutting-edge technology will play a very big role in this collection, analysis of data from robot until DNA analyses. But nothing can be done without the same archaeologists who toil, researching, who are passionate about their work, giving instructions and directions». Brendan Foley, the archaeologist and diver who had a key role in international research mission in the Antikythera wreck, sitting opposite me at a table with Prime views. We're rooftop akrobolismenoi hotel in Plaka Athens and we see illuminated the Parthenon.

The American who lives in Sweden, found recently in Athens, for the official presentation of the first results of this year's dives, in the hull of the mechanism. Incidentally the last ten years of visits to our country is dense as it works closely with the Ephorate of underwater Antiquities.

In October 2014, the team in which he participated, He managed to complete a detailed photographic survey of the seabed in the vicinity of the wreck and to bring certain findings, Despite the fact that the weather was not an ally. There was also the world's first "space" skafandroy's Exosuit that stole the show. In May, the mission will return with bigger ambitions for finding great works of art and objects, as there are numerous indications for rich harvest from the seabed. Indeed, will be done and a fieldwork in Kythira, at the point where it had sunk the ship mentor which had Charter the Elgin to transfer the sculptures of the Parthenon.

The Brendan is one of the most common Irish names, of I spotted, starting the conversation. «H my family has roots from Ireland» answers. "My great-grandfather immigrated to America at the beginning of the previous century. Ten years ago, I went with my father to the village from which they come. We found a tiny House with a room that does not chwroysame to stand upright. You understand immediately that it was impossible to survive people in such harsh conditions and foreign lands was one way. His great-grandfather settled near Boston and became a COP ".

The MIT experience

Continues: "I grew up next to the ocean. EHO experiential relationship with the sea. When I was a teenager, We had a boat with engine with my friends and was entertained. A little later, I started and diving. At that time would be katatagw in the Navy and serve on submarines. But in a wrestling match, caused great damage to my neck and I could not be admitted into the army. Eventually I decided to study history and archaeology. I continued with nautical and economic history. During my studies, a Professor urged me to follow the path of submarine archaeology. I plunged into a sunken ship of 1690. For you Greeks, It's not very old, but in America we don't have ancient. I had another great chance: Both met and teamed up with Bob Ballard who had found the wreck of the Titanic, on the other hand I completed my studies with a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute».

Mr. Foley speaks with enthusiasm and passion for the MIT: "This experience has changed my whole life. Is the part that helps to do the craziest your dream reality. Go to your teacher and say: "I got this completely crazy idea and I want to see if I could implement". And he'll answer: "Perfect. The University will do what,what it can to help you with know-how, resources and tips ". Today, so many years after my graduation, I meet with my fellow students. Everyone is top in a field. And through our discussions, find incredible solutions to scientific matters that concern us. One of them e.g.. specializing in investigations of DNA by asking if we have used such techniques in the content of amphorae, that anasyrame from the seabed. Etsi, We could xanaftiaxoyme from ancient recipes of dishes up ancient cosmetics».

Your home can have a brilliant future

At Mit, Mr. Foley learned what that reflects the American educational and working model: «The Pan is the team spirit. Can you have your own designs but always talk about cooperation, for overall goals. Nobody in respect if peristrefesai around yourself, as smart and if you're. Sometimes I get angry when people say that the Greeks may not work in groups. Is an incorrect stereotype. It is not true. Look at the wonderful work they do in Antikythera. I must tell you that the Theotoki Theodoulou and Dimitri Koyrkoymeli, members of the Inspectorate which supervises today Dr Aggeliki Simosi, We work for about ten years. Are the most hardworking, capable and semnoi associates that I had in my life and this is the most powerful incentive for working in Greece. It's not the great shipwrecks that have, but the great people. Having solid knowledge of Greece, many times I feel that the average Greek believes that the only worthy in the eyes of foreigners is the past. I believe that such a deal is a big mistake and doesn't let you go ahead with a lucid picture of who you are. You have all the supplies and gifts, to be just as proud for your self today. As I said I've known all these years of extraordinary people, with project, which is not often».

Modern Paris; Brendan Foley who is married to Swedish and lives for many years in Scandinavia, embodies a model that has been eclipsed lately: the man who has a classical education but with tenderness and trust turns his gaze in modern Greek: "Since the crisis began and after, I'm tired of reading negative things about you in foreign newspapers. Stenachwriomoyn because I knew firsthand the efforts to adapt to new realities, the huge struggle that made. I wanted the Antikythera affair to bring great positive publicity, It might seem that Greece is a country that deserves not for its history but for modern people, scientists, the archaeologists of the. The Greece can have a bright future and I say to whoever I work, my sponsors by Americans until the Australian scientists. It is a belief that we embrace all of us».

I am convinced that there are more treasures in the water

Mr. Foley came for the first time in Greece the 2001. "The Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT, During this period, American head teachers who had wanted to try an underwater robot. It was then that I met Dimitris Koyrkoymeli and Theotoki Theodoulou and we had excellent chemistry. I want to say at this point something about Ephorate of underwater that is a public service. Can in our common projects I contributed to in part I of the technology but the training, the knowledge and passion they have for their job, is what counts in all our decisions. So with the members and with the superiors of have a very fruitful collaboration. It is not only identified a wreck but how will elicit the necessary information. What it tells us about the load, the circumstances of the accident, the whole season. This is the main aim of submarine archaeology on our days and served this purpose anymore with the contribution of the last word of technology, as we saw in the Antikythera. Etsi, in this case we created a revolutionary model fwtomwsaϊko by joining thousands of photos pulled on the bottom the robot. This map helps us to work even when we are apart of water, observing the morphology of the seafloor and placing there the findings».

The financing

Mr. Foley apart from introducing new technology, distinguished and in another field. Tries and-in bespoke- He manages to find and finance for the needs of research in Greece. "I'll tell you what the American logic to such projects. More importantly for the scientist and the researcher is to see in the future, letting his imagination to guide him in the study or research, thinking of what is the desired outcome and not thinking whether there will be money to implement everything she wants. Because it puts the same obstacles to himself, brake abilities, the subjects in the budget. And where will they find the money; In America we believe that great ideas eventually find and great financing while small ideas find, respectively, small economic response. It has been bathyploytoys to meet people who want to learn what is our project to see if it will help. All times ask for little money, I left the Office with the sense that the apogoiteysa and ate the time for micro. All times went enthusiastic, asking for large sums, describing very ambitious and difficult designs, most of the time I had a positive response. To find funders should do to feel involved in a lot of effort, in a dream that will come true».

And how found on Antikythera; "When I came to Greece, I must admit that I had not intended to focus on the sinking. I didn't care a Roman hull but much more old boats, because my goal was to see how it started shipping, to understand the basic principles, to learn how people of the second Millennium b.c.. dared to try their luck at sea. But my fellow Greeks, convinced me the enormous importance of the wreck. The mechanism is only an indication of the colossal importance but not the only. I am convinced that there are more treasures in the water. Mention a few clues. We found this year a huge anchor that is changing our view of the size of the ship, that must have been much more big than what we originally. So far they have identified several residues of human skeletons, that means that there were many passengers, thing very scarce for the ancient years. We must therefore was a huge boat that ferried cereals. The Symiakoi and the Cousteau is not dug but gathered what,what they found on the surface. We will do regular excavation and will investigate in greater RADIUS. The Antikythera wreck is the most important that has ever been discovered, Thanks to new technology experts will have an excellent scientific approach to findings».

Mr. Foley believes that sending in Antikythera will open a new road for the underwater archaeology in our country. "Our ultimate goal must be wrecks that lie in very great depths because they multiply the chances to find intact. The investigation will be done by robots. Of course this still requires more funding but if it goes well the survey on the hull of the mechanism, We can dream of the future. I'll tell you one more thing. Archaeology and the protection and enhancement of monuments can be a lever for growth and revenue for the country. Antikythera of 19 residents in my opinion it should be a protected area by UNESCO so as to ensure a better future for them. You can't be dealing with monuments or wrecks and to forget humans».

The meeting

We ate in the restaurant of hotel Electra, on Admiral Nikodimou in Plaka. The view is amazing, the food delicious and the values corresponding to the high level. For starters we got grilled vegetables with mastelo, for main dish a Carpaccio of calf and noodles with chicken fillets. Drank a Santorini Nychteri. The desserts were Chocolate Fudge and cream mprile. The account amounted to 97 Euro.

O j channels of

1968
Born in Boston.

1991
University of New Hampshire. She graduated from the Department of history.

1995
Tufts University. Doing postgraduate studies in naval history.

1996
University of Southampton. Postgraduate studies in Underwater Archaeology.

2001
First visit to Greece, begins the researches in ancient shipwrecks worldwide.

2003
MIT. He gets his doctorate in history of technology.

2012-13
The preparation of research on Antikythera.

2014
The official international mission starts in the famous Antikythera wreck, with the horizon five years.

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The Kerkini of yesterday and today

Exakontizomaste with the help of faster transport of mind, almost 20000 years before today, was then the last glacial period that saw our old continent, the glacier melt away in the Rhodope Mountains and the terrifying water volumes resulting rolled from the mountainsides as down low in a plain that much later transformed in the plain of Serres who know.

One was located in the southern part of the plain and the called historians “Kerkinitida” ή “Kerkoyro” and the other was in the Northwest and had the name “Prasiada”.
The centuries passed, the River with the torrents have continued their work separating again and again the Lakes, as the 20th century came found under aplwta baltotopia and innumerable small lakes, two were the greatest: achinos East and Kerkini, in place of the ancient Prasiadas. The Kerkini to the period of the Ottoman rule was known as Mpoytkobo, was clearly most small from Lake achinos and several have even been times when completely dry up, all this world cheer water life forms, vegetable and animal.
However, the river has not always been a blessing for the residents of the place. Dynamic and unguarded, not at all times remain within limits of spread furiously, flooding villages and crops, reaching almost as the root of the mountains and hills. The situation for residents was really very nasty especially after the Balkan wars the catastrophe and the installation in the area of refugees, then the Earth was valuable because it was necessary.
The 1928 the Greek Government assigns to the company John Monks-Ulen & Co from the USA the work of conversion of the plain of Serres "... tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields of ...'' six years later, the foreign company that became known in Greek as Oylen, terminating the project had, Lake Achinos Brooks and several marshes, the Plains were settled with mounds of Struma, and a barrier was erected in 1932 near the village Lithotopos, the first he block the flow of the waters of the River was the beginnings of the creation of Lake kerkini as artificial water savings as we know it today.
The purpose that created the artificial lake was threefold: to tackle floods, the increased demand for irrigation of crops and the containment of materials that convey the Struma.
However again the river filled with debris on the Lake, the 1952 forced to raise the levee, again the river outside of the limits, the Lake was filled with deposits of fertile land that people wished to cultivate, and the 1982 Opens the new dam, but River, still exists and sets differential by humans, Maybe pushes us to confront the situation with another Visual, This coexistence with nature and not this binge of exploitation of.
As was next, all changes in geomorphology and hydrology of the site the appropriate adjustments followed by plants and animals, which with vigour and determination over the deadlocks. So the Kingdom of water could be maintained as ΄΄paradeisos on Earth ΄΄me invaluable natural riches, How did this happen; the present Lake is located on the ancient wetland site, from the heaven of ancient aerinos also a passing corridor that follow birds migrating.
The Lake is relatively shallow with rich aquatic and riparian vegetation and mild slopes bas-relief in the North and Northeast, It has uninterrupted power supply from the River in both water and nutrients but also because the Lake periodically presents high productivity. Because of these conditions in other ponds do not apply, It was possible in a human project to provide stronghold and refuge life unique example reservoir live in our country.

The path inside the time

As every river, so the Struma, believer in the role of, millenniums carrying materials that methodically piling on the plain of Serres. Over the mountains and the hills ploytainoyn from plants and animals, ancient writers, as Herodotus, cite crowded pine forests, Oaks , Chestnut and beech trees. When the 480 e.g.. troops arrived, constructed to pass the Struma, a wooden bridge based on boats. Present-day historians, studying the remains of ancient Amphipolis, support that had to be cut from the surrounding forests 12,000 trees for a huge bridge that lifted the endless Persian army. Amid the lush vegetation indicate, also, the ancient geographers that lived many large mammals : Deer, wild boars, bears, Bulls, but lions, leopards and leagues !
Major changes with great impact began in the early 20th century following the intense historical changes in the Balkans. In the 1920s, and after the Asia minor catastrophe, 85000 katatregmenoi refugees, arriving in the region of Serres and villages close to wetlands, informed that the place is karperos and ponds have fish, here people have pinned hopes for their future, doyleytarides as was, the hard work is not the were shocked, were shocked, though, Malaria really decimated their, unusual as it was in this relentless disease. The same decade the Greek Government incorporates the region into a drainage program which main objectives had been to acquire arable land and irrigation of, coping with floods and combat malaria, so, the 1932 completes the construction of the first dam of Struma.
The dramatic changes in the nature and landscape of the wetland begin, around the Lake, in a radius of 10 kilometers from the shores of, have been developed 21 villages, remnants of ancient structures and ancient customs rooted one encounters in them, as the wall in Mandraki and the celebration of Anastenariwn, every year, in the village of Kerkini. Some of the villages had strategic importance for the Greek forces during the Balkan wars, as the Vyroneia where he had installed the Greek HQ, Here the Venizelos and Barry worked for the terms of peace, an inscription on a plane of the railway station testifies to the fact.

The deluge of Deucalion's era that some, (Kaftantzis 1972) place him in 1796 e.g.. must consider a real event for the region of Serres, paromoioys ΄΄kataklysmoys '' Strymwnas often caused. According to Homer the Paeonian originally resided in the Valley of Axios and then moved to the area of Strymon took part in the Trojan war (about 1200 e.g.) with the side of the Trojans. As Herodotus was sex related with them and of course Greek-speaking as the Trojans, It also refers, Hector's campaign in the area of Strymon, before the Trojan to help friends of the THRACIANS who was also on Trojan war allies.
Hesiod is the first (round in 750 e.g.) the River with the name Strymwn, When Euripides son of Strymon ΄΄kalligefyroy΄΄ typically Thracian King Rhesus was who took part in the Trojan war and was killed by Diomedes.

In the Pseydoploytarcho the teleytis ΄΄akoysas on the Struma Risos... Ford Palaistinos erripse unto himself , son of Poseidon and also King of Thrace. ΄΄echwn war ... the Haliacmon stratigon epempse son and the propetesteron fighting anirethi, on do not ... Palaistinos. akoysas.. Ford Konozon erripse unto itself that this Palaistinos from wnomasthi΄΄. The ΄΄Strynonia΄΄ arrived on Earth and the mythical Hercules when performing the tenth labour was trying to take his Seizing the oxen, then apollodoros, Former ΄΄Strymona mempsamenos River when the Kennel emplisas petrais aplwtwn poisen΄΄ waterway.

Himself a hero serving the Sylea a bad form of Fyllidas ampeloktimona raged along the river and turned toward their vineyards which kataplimmyrise. At the junction of Aggitis in the former Lake Achinos place some ΄΄Nission pedion΄΄ from which Pluto grabbed Persephone in the bowels of the earth when the last stretched out her hand to cut a Daffodil. Must be considered certain that DIS­tant that season when his lands were Pedioy΄΄ ΄΄Nissioy mechanical behavior of very pricey by today's. Beneath the surface there is a thick layer of silt ground, until 40 and most measures, in this mire after a few years to sink and found in the arms of Pluto not merely a Persephone but a modern earth-moving machine.

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Making money from our rich monuments

Cyprus is not alone in investing next to nothing in cultural heritage conservation. It is paradoxical that countries with the longest ancient histories – with probably the richest and most impressive archaeological and other monuments – pursue ' development ' policies and budget allocations which put culture way down the list of priorities.

It is said that monuments are not a ' productive sector '. Historical monuments and ruins from our past are invaluable, cannot be replaced, relocated, removed or reconstructed. Still, very little money is invested in heritage conservation. A recent Report by the Global Heritage Fund (GHF) confirms this apparent anomaly.

A recent World Bank Report on the financial neglect of monuments and heritage in general, coined the term ' client crisis ' to draw attention to the same issue. When money is not channeled to monuments, likewise monuments do not generate any money.
Heritage and Economy

Money and monuments have a complex and elusive relationship which becomes far more awkward by the approach and practices pursued by public authorities at various levels, which, in their sincere pursuit of high science and scholarly knowledge, divorce monuments from the hard realities of public policy and market economics.

Proactively, economists have developed a keen interest in heritage and culture that goes beyond the traditional attachment to value as an outcome of quantity focusing equally on the money value of quality. More than this, economists have succeeded in developing methods of capturing money flows created by conservation investment to support financial policies for sustainable heritage conservation.

Two principles

The early economic studies of important heritage projects undertaken mainly by the World Bank (City of Split, Croatia, Fez Medina,

Morocco, Petra in Jordan, Bulgarian Christian Monasteries, etc.) have produced impressive results strengthening the methodologies for the valuation and monetisation of benefits of heritage conservation helping to justify significant increases in conservation investment as a result.

These and many other later studies have established two important principles that underpin much of the contributions economists make in heritage conservation.

First, the historical and scientific value of monuments is too abstract to capture the attention of public policy makers as an economic priority. Second, to mobilise funds for conservation, economists propose a social approach to value based on the tangible benefits of conservation accruing to real people as citizens, residents, visitors, consumers, producers or scholars. Value can only exist in a social context.

Many heritage specialists of various backgrounds, however, continue to question whether historical monuments and cultural areas can be said to have a ' market ', or even if they are meant to have a ' market '.

Economists are quick to clarify that what they mean by ' market ' is all of us who derive satisfaction from conservation, similar to the satisfaction we enjoy when consuming something we value and spend money; who enjoy the pleasure of the sight and knowledge of the history of a monument; who are enriched by the experience of a visit to a monument.

This is essentially what economists call the ' services ' of a monument. It is true that monuments are of various types, with different potential relationships with the market. A castle is different from a museum in this sense. What they have in common, which is of particular interest, is their powerful role in urban regeneration, employment growth and municipal finance.

A particular brand of economic studies applied to the field of heritage, collectively known as impact studies, specifically popular with decision-makers responsible for budget expenditure allocations, measure with considerable success the income and employment benefits of heritage conservation investment.

The recent studies reported by David Throsby of the Old Bazaar of Skopje and the Old Town of Tbilisi in Georgia illustrate well how impact studiers can be used to generate solid evidence for the diverse regeneration impacts arising from investment in heritage areas.

Job creation

Let us take a look at the famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Until recently it was talked about mainly in connection with the impressive architecture of Frank Gehry. An economist at the University of Bilbao, Beatriz Plaza, reported that the museum paid for itself in nine years — a world record.

When it opened, tourism increased immediately. The number of hotel stays rose by about 62,000 a month producing an additional 740,000 hotel stays a year.

The museum has generated about 1,000 jobs and support 4,500 more in occupations such as translation, library services, and handicrafts. It has increased the demand for knowledge of foreign languages, tourism packaging, advertising, marketing, film production and business management.

As we speak, there are serious studies under way for the development of Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, a 12,000sq.m museum with 4,000sq.m of exhibition space.

Scenarios have been worked out for the expected number of visitors, the consequent revenues and the part of the operating costs they will cover. It is estimated that visitors will be about 500,000 yearly likely to generate about €6.5 million from museum operations.

The expected economic impact of Guggenheim Helsinki in terms of spending in the City of Helsinki will be significant likely to increase by €4.0 million yearly while visitors to Finland extending their stay as a result of the new museum will generate an additional €2.9 million annually.

Monuments and money is becoming a new linkage in the economics of heritage and this synergy promises to be an even more important agent of city regeneration with far reaching impacts on urban as well as cultural development.

At home now, the development of the New Archaeological Museum in Nicosia, much needed for both economic and cultural reasons, is being abortively debated in the corridors of various departments for years without any real willingness to involve the private sector and its interests in the development process. Without money there will be no museum and, for the same reason, without a design that makes financial sense money will not be forthcoming, leaving Nicosia and our cultural education and competitive strength with yet another minus.

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