⛏️ Fieldwork 2025 This season (23 June–5 July) marked the conclusion of our excavation cycle at Toumba Serron, directed by Dimitra Malamidou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres), Nicolas Zorzin, and James Taylor (University of York) with a team of 17–18 staff, students and specialists.

📖 Opportunity alert! 📕 The BSA invites applications for the role of Co-Editor of the Annual of the British School at Athens, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal with a long and distinguished history. For more information, visit: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/16/v...

BSA Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology, Dr. Sergios Menelaou (CHS Fellow 2024–25, right), and Assistant Director, Dr. Giorgos Mouratidis (CHS Fellow 2025–26, left), at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece for the fifth annual Research Workshop in Nafplio a few weeks ago ✨

Lecture and Wine-tasting 🍷 including a lecture by Dr Emlyn Dodd (ICS), a tasting of six Greek wines led by Alix Robinson and a raffle. 📆 Tue 21 October 2025 ⏰ 17:30-20:30 📍 Location: Westminster Cathedral Hall, London 🎫 £76 per person 🔗 More info: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/wine-...

📬 BIRI Postdoctoral Fellows Appointed The British International Research Institutes (BIRI) are pleased to announce the appointment of four postdoctoral research fellows within the project 'Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions.' 🔴Read the news at biaa.ac.uk/ottoman-mobi...

🗻 @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social conference programme & registration is now available! 🏔 📄 Visit our website for the programme and to register. Please note: for capacity and security reasons, it is strictly necessary to register for in person participation. www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mount...

📢 Upcoming event! Join us for the first Friends' Lecture of the 2025-26 academic year by Professor David Gill (University of Kent). 📆 Tue 16 Sep 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR) 📍online only 🔗 For more details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/david...

We're hiring! 🔬 The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years). Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...

🏃🏻‍♂️Handing over the baton 🏃🏻‍♂️ Recently, Dr Edward Jones (right), outgoing Macmillan Rodewald student, and Dr James Hua (left), incoming Macmillan Rodewald student beginning next month, crossed paths in Athens! 📸 photo thanks to fellow studentship holder, Dr Laura Nastasi www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/stude...

The BSA Sep-Dec 2025 Events Brochure is out now! Check it out via our website and mailing list. Event listings are subject to change - make sure to refer to the Events pages of our website for the most up to date information. www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/02/e...

Summer School Takeover – Day 7 🌞 From #Marathon to #Brauron, #Thorikos & the breathtaking #Sounion 🏛️ Our students explored Attica’s past, while tutors guarded the map so Athena’s temple plan was drawn the old-school way! ✍️ #BritishSchoolatAthens #SummerSchool #BSASummerSchool2025

Summer School takeover! 🌞 Day 3: Acropolis & museum dives into sculpture & curation. Day 4: Roman Athens adventures—Hadrian’s Library & Arch, Roman Agora, Temple of Zeus, Panathenaic Stadium + lectures on festivals & Panhellenism. #BSASummerSchool2025 #Acropolis #RomanAgora

We launched #BSASummerSchool2025 w/ 30 students from 18 UK unis! Lycabettus views, #ancientagora tour, & a rain-soaked #kerameikos. Back at BSA, talks on democracy & burials kept spirits high—then pizza to close the day! #BritishSchoolatAthens #SummerSchool #summerrain

Via @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König has been releasing regular blog posts looking at individual mountains in turn. Whet your appetites and perhaps climb a few of the mountains ahead of the conference in October! Subscribe here: mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Congratulations to our ᾽Ancient City of Athens' course participants for completing their course! This June, 13 undergraduate students from 11 different UK institutions came to Athens to learn about the physical landscape, history and archaeology of Athens. The course involved a mixture of lectures..

Dr Penelope Anne Mountjoy (1946 -2025) The BSA community was saddened to hear that Dr Penelope Anne Mountjoy passed away on 14th June 2025, in Oxford aged 78. Read the full obituary here: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../dr-penel...

August 2025 Closure www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/08/05/a...

September 2025 Closure www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/29/s...

What an exciting year 2024 was, with the wrap-up of the Emporios Hinterland Project in Chios, Greece! Special thanks to Dr. Bevan and @brennawalks.bsky.social for coordinating such a systematic surface survey, enriched with computational approaches 🚶‍♂️⛰️

Over on LinkedIn, the UKRI and RICHeS teams have been sharing some great updates on our Transforming Access to Mediterranean cultural heritage science collections project, including a blog post on their visit to Athens in May. Check out the RICheS blog post: www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

⛏ It's a busy period of fieldwork for the BSA right now, and last year was busy too! We'll have lots of exciting news from our 2025 fieldwork projects soon, but in the meantime...

The BSA Arts Researcher residency 2026 (BSA/UAL partnership) has been awarded to Abbie Vickress 🎉 www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/22/b...

Save the date 🗻🌄🏔 Conference "Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future" 📆 22-24 October 2025 📍 British School at Athens, Souedias 52, 106 76 Athens and online 🌐 ℹ www.bsa.ac.uk/events/mount... @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Full programme coming soon!

The #Minoan Palace of #Knossos has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list - but only the palace site. The palace sits within a 70 ha ancient city, and @britschoolathens.bsky.social will be investigating it for at least the next 5 years. #archaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

We are delighted that six of Crete’s Minoan Palaces join the UNESCO World Heritage sites! Our work at Knossos goes right back to the earliest days of the BSA and the continuing endeavours at the Knossos Research Centre, established by Sir Arthur Evans, remain at the core of our research.

The BSA joined the Earth Water Fire festival, with a hands-on pottery session at the Knossos Research Centre led by Kostis Christakis, and a talk in Thrapsano where Evangelia Kiriatzi and Carlotta Gardner (Fitch Lab, BSA) showed the public what pottery looks like under a microscope!

For the 2025 Classical Association conference (St. Andrew's), BSA supporter Gordon Davies and BSA Research Associate @tulsiparikh.bsky.social co-produced a video-essay: 'Revisiting Classical Reception On-Screen with The Owl's Legacy (Chris Marker, 1989) | Ulysses' Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos, 1995)'...

School Teacher Fellowship ‍👩🏻‍🏫 In April 2025, School Teacher Fellow Lauren Cox (Reigate College) spent a week at the BSA and around Athens to conduct research to benefit her teaching on women’s role in Greek Religion. #BritishSchoolatAthens #SchoolTeacherFellowship

Deadline approaching for the BIRI postdoctoral fellowships programme for "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions"! 📣 Apply now for a postdoctoral fellowship exploring how people, ideas, things and institutions moved across the Ottoman world. 📅 Deadline: 14 July 2025 🔗 biaa.ac.uk/grants/postd...

🔥New article out in Journal of Archaeological Science! "Wood ash tempering in archaeological ceramics" by Carlotta Gardner, Panagiotis Karkanas, Noémi S. Müller, Ian C. Freestone & Evangelia Kiriatzi. New criteria for identifying this potentially overlooked practice. 🔗 lnk.ink/RL0BD

Got a burning question you've always wanted to ask an archaeologist? Now is your chance! We're gathering questions to ask one of our archaeologists for an upcoming video. Comment your questions below. ⬇️ #WeAreNCL #AskAnArchaeologist

The inaugural celebration of Hugh Sackett Street took place on 25 June 2025 in Palaikastro, East Crete, including a service at Aghios Antonios, unveiling the marble plaque, a reception at the dig house and dinner at "Mythos", Hugh's favourite eatery. Read more: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/08/t...

⛏ Fieldwork 2025: Knossos The first season of the new Knossos fieldwork project on the nature of the Roman settlement took place in May. The crack team led by Dan Stewart (Leicester University) & Rebecca Sweetman (BSA/St Andrews) consisted of very experienced archaeologists and brand new converts.

We're very proud of our Assistant Director Dr Giorgos Mouratidis for winning a prestigious Early Career Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University! Συγχαρητήρια Γιώργο! 🔗 greece.chs.harvard.edu/fellows/geor...

We are thrilled have recently received for our Archive of one of Francis C. Penrose's (the BSA's first Director) passports from his travels in 1845! Read more: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/03/a...

For the love of Gods! What an evening! 🌟 Last week, BSA Supporters & guests enjoyed a brilliant event with @nataliehaynes.bsky.social in conversation with our Director, Rebecca. 📄 www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/07/02/a... #NatalieHaynes #GreekMythology #BritishSchoolatAthens #Classics #BSASupporters

Onyeka Igwe, the @researchual.bsky.social #PhD student who was the @britschoolathens.bsky.social 2019 BSA Arts Bursary holder, will be showing work at Tate Britain 19 September 2025 - 17 May 2026.

📢 New paper by Timothée Ogawa and team! 🧱 Cooking ware from Bronze Age–Classical Toumba (N. Greece) reveals local potting traditions, social identity & regional networks. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

EARTH WATER FIRE 2025 🏺💧 🔥 Celebrating Cretan Pottery from Antiquity to the Present 📍 Thrapsano, Crete 📅 3rd- 6th July 📖 Programme: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../06/Xoma-...

Applications are now open for the BSA’s two Visiting Fellowships 2026-27 Visit www.bsa.ac.uk/.../fellowsh... for full information.

BIRI Post-doctoral Fellowship opportunity! See the full details via @thebiaankara.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure to have with us students from the 20th and 56th Heraklion Elementary Schools for an educational program on old books and maps and the MINOANS. See also: blogs.sch.gr/20dimiraira/...

A few weeks ago, the core Transforming Access leadership team for our RICHeS project funded by @ukri.org got together in Athens. Read more about the visit and the project: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/06/16/t...

Look out for our digital history of women archaeologists, ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’, on display at the British Academy Summer Showcase, 20-21 June storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

BSA Annual Garden Party 2025 ☀

Whit Monday (Αγίου Πνεύματος) please note: The BSA Offices will be closed: 6-9 June 2025 The BSA Library will be closed to readers: 9 June 2025

More new inscriptions now available at @atticinscriptions.bsky.social!

📖 Now available in the BSA Library! "The Greek Language after Antiquity: Advances and Challenges in Historical Linguistics." Edited By David Holton and Io Manolessou. 2025 www.routledge.com/The-Greek-La...

Presenting ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’ Explore our interactive StoryMap to learn about the ground-breaking work of 20thC women archaeologists storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

📣 Event reminder! Next week is the last UK Friends' lecture of this academic year. We will be joined online by Dr Maria Mina (University of the Aegean). 📆 Tue 27 May 2025 ⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (Greece) 📍 Location: Online only 🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/maria...