Meet the Team: Zominthos, Crete

Angelos Boufalis

Angelos Boufalis was born in Athens in 1984. He is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete, and continues his studies with a BA in Philology. He has taken part in excavations in Eleutherna I (Director Petros Themelis) and III (Director N. Stampolidis), the peak sanctuary of Vrysinas (Director Iris Tzachili), and the Zominthos Central Building, as well as surveys at Knossos (Director Todd Whitelaw), Thirasia (Director Iris Tzachili), and Vrysinas (Director Iris Tzachili). He has also participated in the recording of the inscriptions in Melidoni Cave (Director Yiannis Tzifopoulos).
He is a member of the Hellenic Alpine Club and the Greek Speleological Society. He founded, along with Costas Papadopoulos (see above), the amateur team “Modern Archaeological Documentaries.” His research interests are mainly focused on Greek epigraphy, the archaeology of the landscape, and Early Iron Age Crete.


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