The program has three components:

1. Archaeological Excavation
   
   • excavation of the Early Helladic, Middle Helladic, and Mycenaean settlement at Iklaina
   • Work with the finds and ceramics at the Pylos museum. This entails:
     
     • washing and sorting pottery lots
     • identifying and dating pottery shapes
     • cataloguing important ceramics and artifact finds
   
   
2. Travel to major sites and museums in Greece
   This summer's expedition includes trips to the following sites and their museums:
   • The Palace of Nestor at Pylos, with its archive of tablets in the Linear B script, as well as its tholos tombs
   • Mycenae, the capital city of Greece in Homer's Iliad, and home to Agamemnon, king of the Greeks in the Trojan war
   • Nafplio, the first capital of modern Greece
   • the medieval castles of Methoni and its beach
   • ancient Olympia, home of the Olympic Games, where we will have special tours of the ancient stadium and athletic installations
   • a one-day cruise to the island of Sphakteria and adjacent Golden Beach
   • and there will be plenty of time to explore all of the nearby beaches of sandy Pylos
   
   
3. Evening lectures on Greek history, literature, philosophy, archaeology, art, and culture.

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Daily Schedule
6:00am Wake-up call
6:30am Breakfast in the hotel lounge. Departure for the site (ride ca. 20 mins.)
7:00-11:00 Excavation
11:00-11:30 Break for a light lunch
11:30-13:00 Excavation
13:30-17:00 Free time (usually we explore the beaches of the area)
17:00-19:00 Evening lectures and/or work in the lab (drawings, writing, studying of finds, etc.)
19:30-21:30 Dinner at the hotel's seafront dining area. The rest of the evening is free.