This weekend we drove up to Plakiamos for two talks at the INSTAP center on two sites. The talks were quite interesting and seeing the beautiful pottery and gravesites they were finding in their Minoan and Mycenae sites made our humble work look a bit drab in comparison. There were many other workers and students visiting with their respective Field Directors so it was fun to get to talk with people our age with the same interests.
We spent the night in a tiny coastal village called Mohlos (Mok-los). There is a small site on an island just out of the harbor of Mohlos, and on Saturday we all swam the 200m distance to hike around it. With us were two grad students who had worked on the site in previous summers, so we got a great tour. We took a break at the very northern peak of the island, where the land falls away to the open ocean. There lies a ruin of a Hellenistic guard tower, and looking out over the deep blue of the water, it is easy to imagine ancient ships like Odysseus' and Achilles' approaching over the waves of the Aegean.
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