page_title: Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece
section_title: A few milestones
hierarchical_section_title: Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece / A few milestones
caption_attribution_description: English: Eretria heroon
context_page_description: The Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece is one of the foreign archaeological institutes operating in Greece.
  Since 1964, the Swiss archaeologists have been excavating the remains of the ancient site of Eretria, a medium-sized city which has extensively contributed to the development and the influence of the Greek civilisation. Hosted in Switzerland by the University of Lausanne, the Swiss School has its head office in Athens, in an Art Nouveau building at Odos Skaramanga 4B. The school has also offices in a 19th-century neoclassical house in Eretria, Odos Apostoli 15.
context_section_description: The forty years of Swiss archaeological excavations in Eretria (1964–2004) can be divided into three phases. 
  The first phase, which extends from the beginning until 1982, is that of the great discoveries: the rich necropolis from the Geometric Period (Heroon), the structures predating the temple of Apollo Daphnephoros uncovered under the foundations of the 6th century BC temple, and the sumptuous dwellings of the Classical-Hellenistic Period, including the House of the Mosaics. 
  The second phase, from 1982 to 1995, is that of consolidation, research on the material excavated, and finally a more moderate extension of the terrain (the West Quarter, the North Gymnasium, the acropolis, the Sacrificial area north of the Sanctuary of Apollo). 
  The third phase (1996–2009) is marked by a new spurt of excavation activity with the exploration of a sector located not far from the House of the Mosaics, which led to the discovery of the Industrial Quarter as well as remains going back to the second millennium BC.
caption: The geometric Heroon
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop 7.0", "Image DateTime": "2005:10:24 14:29:57", "Image ExifOffset": "156", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "294", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5336", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "580", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "337"}