Greek Heritage Treasures

Between 1928 and 1937, a large Hellenistic bronze statue of a small boy riding a horse was found in fragments in an ancient shipwreck off Cape Artemision, in north Euboea. The equestrian statue’s…

Uncovered in 1896 in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi, the rare surviving 2,500-year-old Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Iniohos (meaning the rein-holder) is one of the world’s finest…

Created in the early Greek Classical Period of 460 BC, discovered in 1926 and unearthed in 1928 from the bottom of the sea off the coast of the Cape of…

One of the most famous finds from Sir Arthur Evans’ excavations of Crete in 1905, the Bull’s Head Rhyton, is a masterpiece from Knossos, a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete…

Discovered at the citadel of Mycenae, in Argolis in the North-East Peloponnese in 1876, by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, the “Mask of Agamemnon” is one of the most famous gold artifacts…

The Golden Larnax (with the “Sun of Vergina” – symbol of the royal clan of Macedon- design on the lid) contains the remains (bones) from the burial of King Philip II of Macedon (r.…