On Saturday, September 30, 2023, at the 9th Thasian Studies Symposium “Thassos Through the Ages”, the paper by Despoina Tsiafaki-Yiannis Mourthos-Natasa Michailidou-Melpomeni Karta-Vassilis Evagelidis entitled “The digital footprint of the Thasian cultural heritage: current situation and prospects” was presented.
On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, the paper “ECHOES of the past: recreating lost soundscapes for a digital touring experience in the Old Town of Xanthi, Greece” was successfully presented in Vienna, at the “Life Narrative and the Digital 2023” conference, implemented in the context of the project “Echoes: Reconstructing the life of traditional settlements through interactive experiences and 3D sound“. The abstract is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8255752.
Agiati Benardou discusses with Despoina Tsiafaki, archaeologist-historian, about the arrival of the Thracians and what this meant for Athens in antiquity.
The workshop ‘Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future. GIS in Archaeology, maturity & implementation’ was succesfully completed with highly positive feedback for the future. We would like to thank all those who helped in the organisation of the workshop, the excellent speakers and discussants, the personnel of Athena RC and the British School at Athens for hosting the event. More information can be found here.
The one day workshop of the Project “Mythological Routes in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace” (MIS 5047101) (MYTHOTOPIA) was successfully held in Komotini, in the hall of the Commercial and Industrial Chamber on 11/3/2023.
