Evan Levine

Thrilled to share that our article, An Island through Time: Surface Survey and Selective Occupation on Strongylo (Antiparos), has been published in a new volume on small island archaeology 🇬🇷🏝️ #greece #archaeology #island

A few years ago, the Small Cycladic Islands Project surveyed Strongylo, a remote island in the Cyclades near Paros. Although uninhabited today, its landscape preserves evidence of human activity that stretches from the Early Bronze Age to the recent past.

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DM me for a PDF of the chapter and be sure to check out the other excellent contributions in the volume, available now at www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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Excited to have this study of the Hellenistic sculpture from the Villa of Herodes Atticus published in the JRA. Ft Homeric heroes, an eccentric billionaire, a few murders & a special eagle helmet, this is not classical sculpture for the faint-hearted! Available open access: doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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9 July

that's a wrap! Naxos Quarry Project 2026 has officially come to a close after an intense and really fascinating few weeks working on Palatia islet, the site of the famous 'Portara.' Check out our work - incl posts from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social students - on our website naxosquarryproject.org

24 June

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 For 2,500 years, the Cycladic island of Polyaigos has been described as uninhabited, but its archaeology tells a much more interesting story. Our new article on the archaeology of Polyaigos is available open access at doi.org/10.1086/741063 🏺🇬🇷

22 Dec 2025

🚨double publication alert! 🚨 This year's issue of the Journal of Greek Archaeology is all about airborne #lidar in Mediterranean #archaeology, & I'm thrilled to have not one, but two open access contributions! The issue is full of excellent papers and available at doi.org/10.32028/jga... 1/3 🏺🇬🇷

22 Dec 2025

The first paper comes from the Naxos Quarry Project, where we've been using drone lidar to help identify new archaeological sites & map ancient marble quarries. Visit archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph... to read about how best to fine tune drone lidar for Mediterranean environments! 2/3 🏺🇬🇷

22 Dec 2025

Our second paper comes from the Small Cycladic Islands Project ⛵️ We compared results from lidar analysis with traditional fieldwalking to determine how best to document human activity on small islands in the Aegean sea – check it out at archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.ph...! 3/3 🏺🇬🇷

19 Dec 2025

small islands : BIG paper Want to know more about the fascinating #archaeology of #Greece’s Cycladic islands? We’ve just published the results of fieldwork on 14 small islands & each one tells an amazing story about island life over the past 6,000 years! Check it out: doi.org/10.2972/hes.... 🏺🇬🇷

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Antiquity Journal

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2 Dec 2025

Our December issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as: 🔵 The oldest blue mineral pigment use in Europe ⛰️ Mesoamerican mountain monuments and water worship 🐚 Playing the shell trumpets of Neolithic Catalonia & much more! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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2 Dec 2025

Excited to see the Naxos Quarry Project on the cover of @antiquity.ac.uk! Head to bit.ly/48yvshj to read our article about using cutting edge tools to study ancient marble quarries in #Greece & check out the rest of the issue to learn more about the most exciting #archaeology happening today🏺⛏️

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30 Oct 2025

📢 Event reminder! 📆 Tue 4 Nov 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR) 📍 online only 🔗 For more details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../rebecca-...

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Antiquity Journal

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28 Oct 2025

📕 #BookReview Anastasia Christophilopoulou (ed.)'s 'Islands and communities: perspectives on insularity, connectivity, and belonging' explores island communities in the Mediterranean to re-evaluate concepts of insularity, connectivity and mobility 1/2 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

21 Oct 2025

Another amazing mini-season with the @bsrome.bsky.social team, finding new ways for geophysics to teach us about the intersection of agriculture, marble extraction, and urbanism in the ancient Cyclades! 🏺🇬🇷

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This past week, the archaeology team @stephenkay.bsky.social @emlynkd.bsky.social @levine.bsky.social & Sara Fabbri returned to Paros, Greece, for a second season of geophysical survey.

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15 Oct 2025

New fieldwork this week on Paros, #Greece! 🏺 🏛️ Ground-Penetrating Radar survey adjacent to excavations at #Hellenistic and #Roman houses and a sculpture workshop. 3D modelling of structural remains will also tie in with subsurface features captured by radar. /1

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Antiquity Journal

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13 Oct 2025

Check out this new #MethodsPaper completely FREE: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Marble from the island of Naxos was used for some of the most beautiful monuments from the ancient Greek world–but how were huge blocks like these quarried 2,500 years ago? Check out our new paper in @antiquity.ac.uk at bit.ly/4h9AVik to learn how we're developing new ways to study old quarries 🏺🇬🇷

There's always something interesting happening in Mediterranean island archaeology 🏝️🏺 Visit bit.ly/42C3E9A to learn how archaeology, museum exhibitions, documentary films, and community outreach converge to teach us about life in Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, and the Cyclades!

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9 Sept 2025

❗️Our recent work around the #ancient tower at Palaiopyrgos (Paros) is published in JAS Reports 🎉 🏺 We used multi-method #survey & #geophysical prospection to better understand landscapes of #agriculture and production in the rural #Cyclades. READ OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

2 May 2025

In Athens & dying to learn more about ancient marble quarrying on beautiful Cycladic islands? Come learn about the first two seasons of the Naxos Quarry Project – a new interdisciplinary study of the island's amazing marble quarries with some really interesting results! 🇬🇷🏺

27 Mar 2025

Excited to contribute to a new effort by The Classical Review to review digital projects in Classics & Archaeology 🏺🏛️ I had the chance to dive into the revamped Sphakia Survey Internet Edition & its longlasting impact on Mediterranean survey archaeology. Read more at bit.ly/43pILj7 🇬🇷

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ics.sas.ac.ukRevisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Bassai

1 Mar 2025

The next ‘Revisiting the #Ancient Mediterranean in the British #Museum’ seminar looks at the display of site-specific material, using the e.g. of temple at #Bassai 🏛️ 🏺 All welcome! Please join for panel & discussion. 🗓️ 26 March, 4pm 📍 Senate House, London REGISTER: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/revis...

5 Feb 2025

Thinking about the tiny island of Anydros, 30km from Santorini & the epicenter of an earthquake phenomenon that has rocked the southern Cyclades over the past few days. Anydros is beautiful & we were lucky to document its amazing archaeology, featured today in @kathimerini.gr: bit.ly/4guaWA4 🏺🇬🇷

22 Jan 2025

What can the archaeology of ancient prisons teach us about incarceration & punishment from the Romans to today? Check out our new publication in Early Christianity that explores the impact of the Prison Project at @ucph.bsky.social. Read it at doi.org/10.1628/ec-2... and dm if you need access 🏺🇩🇰

20 Dec 2024

Some highlights from the excellent Silk Road exhibition at the British Museum: 1: Varakhsha palace fresco, Bukhara 8th c. 2: world’s oldest chess pieces(!), Samarkand 8th c. 3: ivory diptych, Constantinople 6th c. 4: Manichaean image of Christ(?), Dunhuang 9th c.

11 Dec 2024

Some sunny scenes from a beautiful week in Athens 🇬🇷☀️

9 Dec 2024

Need a break from the big city? How about a quick trip to the beautiful island of Aegina 🏺🇬🇷

7 Dec 2024

rainy nights, city sprawl, & one very old stadium 🏺🌙 December in Athens 🇬🇷

3 Dec 2024

There's nothing better on a Friday night in Athens than hearing about Pirates, Exiles, & all of the archaeology that makes the Cyclades a fascinating part of Greece 🇬🇷 Instead of a beautiful dinner, a romantic walk around the Acropolis, or a late night at the club, join me at the Danish Institute! 🏺

22 Nov 2024

It might be chilly, but who doesn’t love a snow day at @ucph.bsky.social ☃️🇩🇰

A snowy November day in Copenhagen is the perfect excuse for a quick trip to the incredible Thorvaldsen Museum! One of the most beautiful museums in a city full of them, it's entirely dedicated to the life & art of Denmark's most iconic sculptor. What's inside? Let's take a look in this 🧵! 🏺🇩🇰

Throughout his life, Thorvaldsen was an avid collector of antiquities and plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures. These objects had an incredible influence on his work and you often find overt and more subtle references to these very objects in Thorvaldsen's sculpture! 🏺🇩🇰 8/

All that just scratches the surface of the Thorvaldsen Museum 🏛️ From his masterpiece frieze of Alexander entering Babylon, to his pedimental sculpture for the Copenhagen Cathedral, or just the design and decoration of the building itself, you'll find something that catches your eye! 🏺🇩🇰 9/9

Another great aspect of the Thorvaldsen Museum is an exhibition dedicated to his travels throughout Italy 🇮🇹 Featuring sketches, watercolors, and even his passport, this section really brings the artist to life & gives a great sense of his influences, study habits, & more! 🏺🇩🇰 6/

Wandering through the museum, you can't help but recognize some famous faces of the 19th c. el One of my favorites is this cast & sketch for his memorial of Lord Byron, commissioned after his death at Messolonghi 🇬🇷 and now on display at @trincolllibcam.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🏺🇩🇰 7/

The building is a combination of Egyptian & Greek styles, featuring baroque decor inspired by Thorvaldsen's time in Italy. Designed by Gottlieb Bindesbøll, it was built specifically to display Thorvaldsen's sculpture, his collections of plaster casts & antiquities, and to serve as his tomb 🪦 🏺🇩🇰 4/

The museum includes examples of some of Thorvaldsen's most famous works – like this sculpture of Jason & the Golden Fleece (1828), his first commercial success! One of the coolest parts of the collection are the incredible preparatory sketches, drafts, & plans for these works 🖼️ 🏺🇩🇰 5/

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) was born to a working class family in Copenhagen & trained at the Royal Danish Academy. He received a stipend to study in Italy, where he became one of the most renowned sculptors of his time. After 40 years, he returned to Denmark an international celebrity! 🏺🇩🇰 2/

Thorvaldsen's triumphant return is memorialized with an amazing frescoed frieze that runs around the entire length of his museum 🏛️ Painted by Jørgen Sonne in 1848, it depicts a vivid scene with ships full of sculpture, antiquities, & the artist himself arriving to a hero's welcome! 🏺🇩🇰 3/

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Writing about a beautiful day of fieldwork in the Cyclades is particularly painful when London decided to do this today ❄️ 🏺 #greece #archaeology

15 Nov 2024

What was life like for criminals, prisoners, & captives in the Roman Empire? Here's a sneak peek for an upcoming exhibition where we explore the archaeology of imprisonment in the ancient Mediterranean! 🔒🏺 #archaeology #Greece

15 Nov 2024

These iron fetters are based primarily on a set found in 2015 during a rescue excavation at Great Casterton 🇬🇧 While the originals are heavily corroded, x-rays & comparanda from the @britishmuseum.bsky.social helped us model and 3D print a fully functional reconstruction of a Roman padlock! 🔒🏺

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23 Sept 2024

Long-awaited fieldwork on Paros, #Greece, with an absolute superstar @ics.bsky.social, BSR and AAIA team! #Geophysics & #archaeological documentation at the so-called #Hellenistic Palaiopyrgos tower and its landscape funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. 🏺 🗃️ 🧵 /1

14 Mar 2024

Tomorrow: lidar + archaeology in Greece 🏛️ 🇬🇷 The ASCSA is hosting a workshop on the use of lidar in Greek archaeology. The lineup is a who’s who of cutting edge projects & we’re thrilled to present some exciting results from the Naxos Quarry Project! Don't miss it: bit.ly/3wO3VsT

15 Feb 2024

12 archaeologists, 10 days, 3 statues, 2 quarries, & 1 island…welcome to the Naxos Quarry Project 🏝️🇬🇷🏺

15 Feb 2024

Over the next 10 days, we’ll be exploring the archaeology of marble quarrying on the island of Naxos, aiming to answer some fundamental questions about the ancient communities of Naxos and their relationship to the island’s most famous export! 🪨🔨