Welcome to the home page of the Mochlos Excavation Project. This web site is a joint effort of students in the Archaeology Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro .


The Mochlos Excavation Project in eastern Crete is pleased to join the array of active archaeological projects now accessible via the Internet. This web site is designed to acquaint the public at large with the results of the excavation and with its latest publications. It is only an introduction to the project, however, and interested readers who want more details should turn to the project's recent publications, particularly the articles in Hesperia and Aegaeum and the books, Mochlos IA, IB, IC and Mochlos II, published by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Press in Philadelphia. The site will be updated and enlarged periodically, but the list of publications is always current. We welcome any comments, suggestions, or questions.


View of Mochlos coastal plain looking west.

The Mochlos Excavation Project involves the cleaning and excavation of a number of related sites on the island of Mochlos and its adjacent coastal plain, located just east of the Bay of Mirabello in eastern Crete. At one time the island was connected to the plain by a narrow isthmus, and the area formed, as it still does, a geographical unit, stretching about 5 km. along the coast, isolated from the interior of Crete by the Ornos mountains. The project began in the summer of 1989, organized as a joint Greek-American excavation under the direction of Jeffrey Soles from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Costis Davaras from the University of Athens. It is conducted under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens in cooperation with the Greek Archaeological Service. The main part of the excavation was completed in 1994 and the project is now engaged largely in study seasons and publication. Some additional excavation was carried out in the summers of 2004 and 2005, however, to explore selected areas of the site, and new excavations are planned for the summers of 2009 and 2010 in order to explore Prepalatial levels beneath the Neopalatial settlement.



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Scenes from Around Mochlos

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Last Modified: 1-Nov-2008
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