The Arcaeological Museum Of Naxos

Did you know that the Arcaeological Museum Of Naxos has the largest collection of Cycladic Figurines and that the vast majority of the items are from legal excavations?

Did you know that items from illegal excavations are almost worthless to the arcaeologist because, the most of the times, we don't even know from which place they came from?

Cycladic Figurines (Early Bronze Age 3000-2200 BC) 

Archaelogical Museum of Naxos

The Naxian Alxenor

Did you know that the Naxian Alxenor was one of progenitors of classic ancient Greek sculpture?

Alxenor marble Stele 490 BC found in Orhomenos Boeotias made from local stone (National Archaeological Museum)

Script found under the Stele

[…] Αλχσηνο̅ρ̣ ε̣πο̣ιησεν hο Ναχσιος· αλλ' εσιδε̣[σθε] […]

Alxenor made it the Naxian, admire it

The developement of temple's architecture in ancient Greece

Did you Know than Naxian Vyzis was the first to use marble stones for the roof of a temple, possibly the temple of Dionysos in Yria?

Did you know that in the remains of the Naxian temples (the temple of Aloades in Melanes, the House of the Naxians in Delos, the temple of Dionysos in Yria, the temple of Demetra in Gyroula and the temple of Apollonas in Naxos Town) we can clearly see that the developement of the ancient Greek architecture that lead to Akropolis was founded in Naxos?

The Temple of Dionysos in Yria Naxos in 580-570 BC

Cycladia (18.000-16.000 BC)

Did you know that 14.000 years ago the level of the sea in the Aegean Sea was 12-125 meters lower than today and almost all the Cyclades islands were one big island we now call Cycladia?

Did you know that around 12.000-10.000 BC the water from the Black Sea flouded the Aegean Sea Throught Vosporos and the level of the sea arrised 60 meters?

Did you Know that Greek Mythology has recorded this insident as "The Cataclysm Of Dardanos"?

The Standing Kore

 The Kore of Nikandra (660 BC - Arcaeological Museum of Athens)

Did you know that the standing Kore type of statue of the Archaic Greece (750-500 BC) was born in Naxos?

Did you know that all three Kore already discovered (Nikandra's Kore in Delos, The Kore of Antiparos and the Kore of Selada in Santorini) are made from Naxian marble?

Did you know that Nikandra's Kore (660 BC), a statue that was dedicated from a Naxian woman to the temple of Artemis in Delos has in it's base the most ancient script in the Homeric languange

The Kore of Selada in Santorini (660 BC - Soon to be exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Santorini)