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From Genesis, Demosthenes or Homer and Xenophon, we were aware of the existence of a ritual where three animals, a sheep, a pig and an ox are sacrificed, what is called trittoia. In Thassos, an island of northern Greece, a random discovery of the remains of a pig, an ox and earlier a sheep, dated around IVth century B.C., the science of archaeozoology adds the missing piece of the puzzle: the rear partof the sheep. The three animals were immolated, cut in half and buried in a hole in the…

In the archaeological museum of Thassos, in northern Greece, archaeologist Arthur Muller introduces us to his research in coroplastic art, the study of terracotta votive statuettes found in the surroundings of temples in ancient Greece, for example in the temple of Artemis and Demeter Thesmoforos (5th to 2nd century). By studying how they were made, through successive moulding, heads combinations, and modifications in their clothing, we discover a nearly modern fabrication method of these…

The Delos Island, in the Cyclades, was and is still one of the main excavation sites of the French School of Athens.

In the thirties, Odette and Jean Taffanel, brother and sister from a family of wine growers, discovered a gigantic necropolis, counting more than a thousand tombs, dating from the Stone Age: the Mailhac civilization.