Exhibition - Princes of Pylos

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These are important findings that are being exhibited to the public for the first time.

The tomb of the Warrior Griffin was discovered in 2015 in Pylos, by the excavation of archaeologists Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stoker of the University of Cincinnati, with the excavations being carried out under the direct supervision of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messinia.

The exhibition entitled "Princes of Pylos" opens at the Messinia Museum in Kalamata on 15 February 2025 and will remain there until 26 April.

The exhibition then opens in June at the Getty Villa in Malibu, Californiain Athens at the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum in the first half of 2026, and finally comes to the Chora Archaeological Museum in Messinia that fall. Every artifact on display has an archaeological context, and most are previously unpublished.

The Griffin Warrior, the new dome tombs found in 2018, and Nestor's Palace itself are set in the broader context of Mycenaean sites throughout Messinia, the Kingdom of Nestor.

The exhibition will be curated by Claire Lyans and Nicole Brandrovic of the Department of Antiquities at the Jean Paul Getty Museum, Evangelia Militsis, head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messinia, and excavators Sharon Stoker and Jack Davis, former director of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

These are amazing finds from the tomb of the "Warrior Griffin" that have never before been on public display.