From the late-Victorian exploits of Charles ‘Trick’ Currelly, a real-life Indiana Jones, and the dashing, peripatetic Gilbert Bagnani to a high-tech underwater search of the Aegean for lost Persian fleets, Canadian archaeologists have long played a significant part in the quest to rediscover ancient Greece.

This history of the Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens, with contributions by the archaeologists who have led or worked on a wide range of innovative investigations, offers a unique look and completed and continuing fieldwork at: Argilos, Macedonia· Kallithea Kastro, Thessaly· Mytilene, Lesvos· Persian War Shipwreck Survey· Tanagra, Boeotia· Khostia, Boeotia· Karystia, Euboea· Kiapha Thiti, Attica· Stymphalos, Arcadia· Zaraca, Arcadia· Kamares, Crete· Sphakia, Crete.