Aptera
Chamber Music Festival | Hania | August 26 – September 4
The 12th Hania Chamber Music Festival will take place at the Minoa Palace Resort and the Ancient Theater of Aptera from August 26 to September 4. Each of the six concerts will juxtapose works from the German Classical and Romantic traditions with works from Russia, Poland, Armenia and the Czech Republic, all of them written in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Statue pair from ancient Aptera to be unveiled at Hania museum
The Archaeological Museum of Hania is to unveil on Wednesday two small sculptures depicting the gods Artemis and Apollo, discovered during ongoing excavations at the archaeological site of Ancient Aptera in Souda, on the island's northwestern coast.
Three Ancient Cities | Athens | December 12 - April 30
The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens presents "Crete - Emerging Cities: Aptera, Eleutherna, Knossos," an exhibition illustrating the trajectory of the three ancient cities from their initial settlement and development to their abandonment and rediscovery through archaeological excavations.
Significant statuettes discovered at archaeological site of Aptera
Archaeological excavations unearthed significant finds at Aptera, Chania on the island of Crete.
Two small sized sculptures of about 0.54cm height were discovered, οne of Artemis is made of copper and the second of her brother Apollo was made of marble.