Publications

Due to the uniquenes of their nature, the findings of the Mikri Doxipara-Zoni exacvation became soon very well known, not only in Thrace but also to the whole of Greece and abroad. Up until today they have been presented in many Greek cities, London, Paris, Prague, Ivailovgrad (Bulgradia) and Edirne (Turkey).

During the first years of the excavation, the greek Alpha channel produced and aired a short documentary film regarding the findings along with the everyday work of the archaeologists and the conservators. History Channel produced a series of documentaries regarding transport in the acient world which included sceens from the horse burials and the cariedges of the tumulus. Furthermore, articles about the excavation have been published by various greek and european newspapers.

Visitors of the site are informed by pumflets in four languages including english, german and dutch.

On September 30th 2006 a scientiffic meeting was organized in Orestiada titled Horses and Wagons in the Ancient World. The paticipants included archaeologists from Greece, The Netherlands and Bulgaria. The proceedings of that meating have been published and are available for download in PDF format by clicking here.

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Images from the meeting — Orestiada, September 30, 2006

Additional publications regarding the Mikri-Doxipara, Zoni excavation:

  • Trantalidou, K., 2005. Loyaux jusqu’ à la mort. Remarques préliminaires sur les seize animaux inhumés dans le tumulus de Mikri Doxipara-Zoni (Thrace-Grèce), in Gardeisen, A., (ed.), Les équidés dans le monde Méditerranéen antique. Actes du colloque (Athènes 26-28 Novembre 2003), Lattes, 29-40.
  • Τριαντάφυλλος, Δ.-Τερζοπούλου, Δ., 2003, Άμαξες και καύσεις νεκρών στον τύμβο της Μικρής Δοξιπάρας-Ζώνης Δήμου Κυπρίνου, ΑΕΜΘ 17, 1-12.
  • Triantaphyllos, D.-Terzopoulou, D., 2005, Le tumulus funéraire de Mikri Doxipara-Zoni dans la commune de Kyprinos, in : Gardeisen, A., (ed.), Les équidés dans le monde Méditerranéen antique. Actes du colloque (Athènes 26-28 Novembre 2003), Lattes, 11-27.
  • Triantaphyllos, D.-Terzopoulou, D., Wagons and horse burials in the Roman Age tumuli in Greek Thrace, Eirene XLII, 2006, 167-182.
  • Waltraud Sperlich-Ulrich Schendzielorz, Es lebe der Tod, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Abenteuer Archäologie, 4, 2007, 56-67.

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