ThEN AND NOW

In 1995 before excavations began Richard Green took some photographs on the site.
Now over 21 years later, how has the landscape changed as a result of our excavations?

This house was on the south western end of the site, and became known as 'the girl's house' to the first generation of female students who stayed in it.  The building was demolished in 2006, when Odos Onislou, the street that crossed the site, was closed.

This 19th century house was nicknamed 'Palm Court' by the team because a series of palms out the front of the building.  Both palms and the building are now gone.  We used this space as a site office, and photography and conservation.  The foundations of the building were partially cleared in Trench 16D this season!

The trench opened by German archaeologists in the 1980s to confirm the location of the orchestra is now unrecognisable on the landscape, as the rest of the orchestra has been cleared.

From the cavea looking towards the SE of the site in 1995 and again in 2016.

From the cavea looking towards the SW of the site in 1995 and again in 2016.

Only a very small area of the upper cavea had been cleared before our team started work in 1995.  Now it is all largely cleared.