“Life Narrative and the Digital 2023” Interdisciplinary Conference

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.

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Thracians through the eyes of the ancient Athenians: Exotic and strange?

Agiati Benardou discusses with Despoina Tsiafaki, archaeologist-historian, about the arrival of the Thracians and what this meant for Athens in antiquity.

https://www.lifo.gr/podcasts/istoria-mias-polis/oi-thrakes-sta-matia-ton-arhaion-athinaion-exotikoi-kai-paraxenoi

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Workshop ‘Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future. GIS in Archaeology, maturity & implementation’

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.

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One day workshop of the Project “Mythological Routes in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace”

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.

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Training program «Heritage Education in the context of schools, museums and archaeological sites», 14-18/6/2021

The Researchers of Athena RC, Dr. Despoina Tsiafaki and Natasa Michailidou will participate with a lecture in the online training program organised by the professor of DUTH Mr. Nikolaos Lianos, entitled «Heritage Education in the context of schools, museums and archaeological sites», June 14th-18th 2021, within the Erasmus+ project, «ReHeEd: Reframing Heritage Education”. The title of their presentation is “Communicating the Archaeological REsearch in the North Aegean to schools through the ARENA project”.

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