The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with the Association of Friends of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, continues the much-loved series of scholarly talks “Wednesdays at the Museum – Archaeological Lectures.”
The initiative aims to acquaint the Thessaloniki public with new excavation and interdisciplinary research and their findings.
This month we welcome Fotis Georgiadis, Head of the Northern Greece Office of the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology, with the lecture: “Under the Surface: Ancient Cult and Rituals in Caves of Northern Greece.”
Caves constitute a rupture in the continuum of the ground, a fissure in the world that surrounds us, a point from which we gain access to the bowels of the earth. Light recedes; the shapes and textures of the materials around us are different from the usual; it is certain that we are in a space that differs, something other than what we know.
In this lecture we will examine how these underground landscapes of northern Greece functioned as sacred places—stages of ritual and piety. The archaeological data and the conclusions that have emerged from the research of the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology in caves of northern Greece in recent years will be presented, as well as significant monuments investigated earlier. A tour through underground spaces of Neolithic ceremonies and ancient sacred caves from Thessaly to Eastern Macedonia and from Thasos to Samos.
The talk will be broadcast live via the link below:
