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SYMI ISLAND
SYMI ISLAND
KASTELORIZO ISLAND
NISYROS ISLAND
Here is barely a fraction of what Tilos and some of the other islands discussed in the lecture offer the visitor: described by Professor Stampolidis as a palimpsest of layers of human and natural history, the still-verdant, cultivate-able Tilos has a unique pre-history*, shown by the paleontological animal finds in the Charkadio Cave and evidence of a Late Neolithic human presence, as well as early Bronze Age artifacts. On Tilos there are excursions to the tiny church high up on the side of a mountain, Aghia Anna, which has remains of 13th century wall paintings, to the castle of Agrioskyni and to the early Classical period fortification wall of Ancient Telos, while the wild and uninhabited southeastern area of the island can be explored on foot.
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A lecture by Nicholas Stampolidis, Professor of Archaeology, University of Crete, and Director, Museum of Cycladic Art—the inaugural program in The Metropolitan Museum’s annual series “Lectures in Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art”—will take place in the Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, in the Museum’s Uris Center for Education on Friday, May 4, at 6 p.m.
This lecture has been made possible by the Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art, Athens, Greece, in fondest memory of its founder, Dolly Goulandris.
Titled “Greek Islands Off the Beaten Track: An Archaeological Journey to the Greek Islands of Kastellorizo, Symi, Halki, Tilos, and Nisyros,” the lecture is free with Museum admission. The annual series, of which this lecture is a part, was established to make the ancient art and culture of the Cyclades and later Greece more familiar to a broad audience.
The Cyclades are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of the Greek mainland, where an important Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture flourished from before 5000 B.C. until about 2000 B.C.
Titled “Greek Islands Off the Beaten Track: An Archaeological Journey to the Greek Islands of Kastellorizo, Symi, Halki, Tilos, and Nisyros,” the lecture is free with Museum admission. The annual series, of which this lecture is a part, was established to make the ancient art and culture of the Cyclades and later Greece more familiar to a broad audience.
The Cyclades are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of the Greek mainland, where an important Neolithic and early Bronze Age culture flourished from before 5000 B.C. until about 2000 B.C.