Cultural sessions at the Cervantes Institute in Athens

From 25th to 28th  November 2008 cultural sessions will be held at the Cervantes Institute in Athens to commemorate the centenary of the official excavations of Empúries (1908-2008) and to present the projects being carried out by different investigators and Spanish institutions into Greek archaeology on the Iberian peninsula, including the “Iberia Graeca” project .... (more)

The Emporitan Drachma

The Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya-Empúries has published this story by  Ricardo Olmos, director of the Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología in Rome, which is set in the Greek city of Emporion (Empúries) at the end of the 3rd century BC or the beginnings of the 2nd century BC. The story revolves about one of the silver coins minted in the city, on which the head of Arethusa appears on one side and, on the other, Pegasus with its head transformed into a child who with his stretched out arms touches the tip of his toes. ... (more)

Reflections of Apollo

This exhibition shows the public how sport was practiced in the ancient Mediterranean through several thematic areas and 140 exhibits -vases, sculptures, bronze pieces, mosaics- from different Spanish museums. Sections focusing on the agonal spirit, the training of athlets, on how the great panhellenic sporting events and the different sporting disciplines unfolded introduce us ... (more)

“Emporitan Monographs”

The Archaeological Museum of Catalonia – Empúries has published number 14 in its series of “Emporitan Monographs”, La ceràmica àtica de figures roges de la ciutat grega d’Emporion (Attic red-figure pottery from the Greek city of Emporion) by Dr. Maria Teresa Miró i Alaix (ISBN 84-393-7348-1). This monograph on Empúries presents a study on 3,680 specimens of Attic red-figure pottery found in Emporion, ... (more)

Mediterranean archaeology stamps

On 13th September 2007, the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre (the Spanish Mint) issued a series of postage stamps called Mediterranean Archaeology.  The series, which was jointly issued with Greece, is presented as a block sheet with two stamps, which reproduce two different statues of Asclepios, the Greek god of medicine. One of these statues can be found at the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia – Empúries and the other at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.... (more)