Swiss Ambassador to Greece Hans-Rudolf Hodel noted the close cooperation between Greece and Switzerland in archaeology during a presentation on Thursday evening of the latest finds in the excavation undertaken by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) on the island of Evia, ANA reports.
Speaking to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on the project, Hodel said “archaeology constitutes a privileged field of intense collaboration between the two countries.”
He noted Swiss archaeologists concentrate on the island of Evia, where they have been unearthing and restoring the remains of Ancient Eretria since 1964. ESAG works in close collaboration with the Greek archaeological authorities, which have been granting the School with the requisite survey permits year after year and is the only permanent Swiss archaeological mission outside Swiss borders.
Furthermore, ESAG is supporting two other field surveys, performed by Swiss researchers from the University of Geneva. The first one is the product of collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica, Piraeus and the Islands, and its goal is to study the evolution of human occupation over time in the Mazi Plain, in the borderlands between Attica and Boeotia.
The second one is an underwater survey carried out in collaboration with the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities in the Kiladha bay of Argolida. The goal here is to study sites and landscapes that were submerged when the sea level rose after the last glacial period.
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