Galanakis, Y.,
2025 (Accepted for publication).
‘The difference in our professions’: (In)forming collecting and archaeological practice by thwarting antiquities trafficking in Greece, 1860s–1880s
Journal of the History of Collections,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhaf033
Biography
I conduct research on the Bronze Age Aegean. This research has focussed on examining the role of burials and mortuary rituals in Minoan and Mycenaean societies (2nd millennium BCE) through fieldwork and the study of past excavations in Greece and adjacent regions. I am currently engaged in a field project focussing on the excavation of Mycenaean tombs at Prosilio near Orchomenos in central Greece, a collaborative project between the British School at Athens and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia/Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports.
Research
- Archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean
- Analysis of mortuary practices and of social complexity
I was the Principal Investigator of Lerna: the analysis, interpretation and publication of the Middle Bronze Age phase, a project researched by Dr Lindsay Spencer (2015–2018).
I have recently co-curated the Codebreakers and Groundbreakers exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum which attracted 45,000 visitors (https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/codebreakers-and-groundbreakers).
Publication
2025 (Accepted for publication)
2024
Hood, S., Galanakis, Y., Hughes-Brock, H., Nafplioti, A. and Preston, L.,
2024.
A GROUP OF MIDDLE AND LATE MINOAN TOMBS SOUTH OF THE PALACE AT KNOSSOS
The Annual of the British School at Athens,
v. 119
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0068245424000066
Galanakis, Y.,
2024.
(N.) MOMIGLIANO In Search of the Labyrinth: The Cultural Legacy of Minoan Crete (New Directions in Classics). London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xvi + 362, illus. £21.99. 9781350156708.
The Journal of Hellenic Studies,
v. 144
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426924000156
2020 (Accepted for publication)
Galanakis, Y., Fappas, I. and Aravantinos, V.,
2020 (Accepted for publication).
ATOP THE KADMEIA: MYCENAEAN ROOF TILES FROM THEBES IN CONTEXT
Annual of the British School at Athens,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S006824542000009X
2018
Galanakis, Y.,
2018.
A survey of Late Bronze Age funerary archaeology over the last 25 years in the central and southern Aegean
Archaeological Reports 64 (2017–2018),
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0570608413000XXX
2017 (Accepted for publication)
Galanakis, I. and Egan, EC.,
2017 (Accepted for publication).
A Lost Mycenaean Fresco Fragment Re-examined
Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici,
2017
Galanakis, I., Tsitsa, E. and Günkel-Maschek, U.,
2017.
THE POWER OF IMAGES: RE-EXAMINING THE WALL PAINTINGS FROM THE THRONE ROOM AT KNOSSOS
Annual of the British School at Athens,
v. 112
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0068245417000065
2015
Galanakis, I.,
2015.
Death and Burial in the Mycenean World
Omnibus,
v. 69
2014 (Published online)
Galanakis, Y.,
2014 (Published online).
Book Review of Principi, Pelasgi e pescatori: L'Attica nella Tarda Età del bronzo, by Santo Privitera
American Journal of Archaeology,
v. 118
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3764/ajaonline1184.galanakis
2013
Galanakis, I.,
2013.
Early Prehistoric Research on Amorgos and the Beginnings of Cycladic Archaeology
American Journal of Archaeology,
v. 117
Galanakis, I. and Skaltsa, S.,
2013.
Tomb robbers, art dealers and a dikast’s pinakion from an Athenian grave
Hesperia,
v. 81
Galanakis, I. and Nowak-Kemp, M.,
2013.
Ancient Greek skulls in the Oxford University Museum, Part II: the Rhousopoulos-Rolleston correspondence
Journal of the History of Collections,
v. 25
2012
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Digitizing the Ashmolean's Linear B tablets from Knossos
The Ashmolean,
v. 64
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Review of N.H. Demand: The Mediterranean context of early Greek history
The Anglo-Hellenic Review,
v. 46
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Review of J. Bintliff: The Complete Archaeology of Greece. From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D.
The Anglo-Hellenic Review,
v. 46
Nowak-Kemp, M. and Galanakis, Y.,
2012.
Ancient Greek skulls in the Oxford University Museum, Part I
Journal of the History of Collections,
v. 24
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhq039
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
“University Professor – Antiquities Looter”: A 19th-century Athens art dealer and the trafficking of antiquities in Greece under the first archaeological law. Part I
The Anglo-Hellenic Review,
v. 45
2011
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Heracles to Alexander the Great
The Ashmolean,
v. 61
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Treasures of Macedon
Apollo,
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
An unpublished stirrup jar from Athens and the 1871-72 private excavations in the outer Kerameikos
Annual of the British School at Athens,
v. 106
2010
Galanakis, I.,
2010.
The new Aegean World Gallery in the redeveloped Ashmolean Museum
Excavations and Research for the Aegaeus - Society for Aegean Prehistory,
Galanakis, I.,
2010.
The Knossos Throne Room: shedding new light on an old problem
The Ashmolean,
v. 59
2009
Galanakis, I.,
2009.
Review of C. Gere: Knossos and the prophets of modernism
The Art Newspaper,
v. XVIII
Galanakis, I.,
2009.
Review of J. Soles: Mochlos IIA. Period IV. The Mycenaean settlement and cemetery. The sites
Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
v. 2009.11.12
GALANAKIS, Y.,
2009.
A MONUMENTAL DEATH: FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE AEGEAN
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies,
v. 52
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2009.tb00762.x
2008
Galanakis, I. and Kim, H.,
2008.
Showcasing the new Ashmolean
The Ashmolean,
v. 54
2007
Galanakis, Y.,
2007.
The Construction of the Aegisthus Tholos Tomb at Mycenae and the ‘Helladic Heresy’ 1
The Annual of the British School at Athens,
v. 102
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400021481
Galanakis, Y.,
2007.
Art and Archaeology
The Journal of Hellenic Studies,
v. 127
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0075426900002287
2024 (No publication date)
Martin, DD.,
2024 (No publication date).
The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
Phillips, R.,
2024 (No publication date).
Curating the Dead: Bodies and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials
Sienkiewicz, J.,
2024 (No publication date).
Objects for the Dead, Practices of the Living: Chamber tombs, burial assemblages, and social dynamics at Ialysos on Rhodes and in the islands of the south-east Aegean
2020
Galanakis, I.,
2020.
Death and Burial
v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118769966.ch14
2017
Galanakis, I.,
2017.
Discovering Writing in Bronze Age Greece
Galanakis, I.,
2017.
‘Spy-hunter' as antiquary: Major A.G. Wade, cultural politics and the British Salonika Force collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
2016
Galanakis, I.,
2016.
A Roof for the Dead: tomb design and the ‘domestication of death’ in Mycenaean funerary architecture
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110480573-008
Galanakis, I.,
2016.
Fire, fragmentation and the body in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
2015
Galanakis, I.,
2015.
Exhibiting the Minoan Past: Oxford to Knossos
Galanakis, I.,
2015.
“Islanders v. Mainlanders”, “the Mycenae Wars”, & other short stories
2014
Galanakis, I.,
2014.
L'histoire de l'archéologie cycladique
Galanakis, I.,
2014.
Arthur Evans and the quest for the “origins of Mycenaean culture”
2013
Galanakis, I.,
2013.
The Aegean World at the Ashmolean
Galanakis, I. and Hicks, D.,
2013.
The Aegean and Cyprus
Galanakis, I., Kamash, Z., Shipley, L. and Skaltsa, S.,
2013.
Iron Age and Roman Italy
Galanakis, I.,
2013.
A preliminary report on the archival material from the excavations of the tholos tomb at Ano Dranista (Ano Ktimeni) in Thessaly by A.S. Arvanitopoulos (1911)
v. 1
2012
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Mycenaean society and culture
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02133
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Nichoria
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02136
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Perati in Attica
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02144
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Phylakopi on Melos
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02150
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Prosymna
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02158
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Berbati
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02033
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Sesklo
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02164
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Dendra in the Argolid
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02052
Galanakis, I. and Fappas, I.,
2012.
Thebes in Boiotia
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02173
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Dhimini in Thessaly
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02053
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Tsoungiza
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02196
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Gla in Boiotia
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02071
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Vapheio in Lakonia
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02187
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Iolkos in Thessaly
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02080
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Zygouries
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02195
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Korakou
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02100
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Lerna in the Argolid
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02108
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Menelaion in Lakonia
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02118
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Midea
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02120
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Mycenae
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02131
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Mycenaean archaeology
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah02132
2011
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Entry no. 37
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Mnemonic landscapes and monuments of the past: tumuli, tholos tombs and landscape associations
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Entries nos. 66a-k
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Late Bronze Age tholos tombs in West Crete
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Entry no. 106
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Entries nos. 118-120
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
160 years of archaeological research at Aegae
2009
Galanakis, I.,
2009.
What’s in a word? The manifold character of the term koiné and its uses in Aegean prehistory
2008
Galanakis, I.,
2008.
Doing Business: two unpublished letters from Athanasios Rhousopoulos to Arthur Evans in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
v. 4
2005
Galanakis, I. and Bennet, J.,
2005.
Parallels and Contrasts: early Mycenaean mortuary traditions in Messenia and Lakonia
2017
Galanakis, I. and Christophilopoulou, A.,
2017.
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers
2014
Galanakis, I.,
2014.
ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt
2013
Galanakis, Y.,
2013.
The Aegean World A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum
2011
Kottaridi, A.,
2011.
Heracles to Alexander the Great Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy
2009
Deligiannakis, G. and Galanakis, I.,
2009.
The Aegean and Its Cultures Proceedings of the First Oxford-Athens Graduate Student Workshop Organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005
2007
Galanaki, I., Tomas, H., Galanakis, Y. and Laffineur, R.,
2007.
Between the Aegean and the Baltic Seas Prehistory Across Borders
2012
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
University Professor – Antiquities Looter?
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Guns, Drugs, and the Trafficking of Antiquities. Archaeology in 19th-century Greece.
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
"Insignificant", "superfluous" and "useless": legal antiquities for export?
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
On Her Majesty’s Service: C.L.W. Merlin and the Sourcing of Greek Antiquities for the British Museum
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
To Serve and to Source: a consul at the service of the British Museum
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
Of grave hunters and earth contractors: a look at the private archaeology of Greece
Galanakis, I.,
2012.
The Sir Arthur Evans Archive
2011
Galanakis, I.,
2011.
Re-thinking Marathon: two 'memorabilia' from the battle of Marathon at the Pitt-Rivers
Teaching and Supervisions
I am involved in the teaching of the following courses:
- Classics Paper 1A: Introduction to Greek & Roman Art & Archaeology
- Classics Paper 1B: Mycenae – City of Legend?
- Classics Paper D1: Aegean Prehistory (different code in archaeology)
I currently supervise students in a range of topics related to the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean. I am interested in supervising students who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD in Classics or in Archaeology in the following topics:
- Bronze Age Aegean art & archaeology
- Mortuary archaeology & social complexity
- Trade of antiquities in 19th century Europe
- History & politics of Mediterranean archaeology
Current students
- Jan Sienkiewicz (PhD, co-supervisor) – Ialysos on Rhodes: a study of chamber tombs and their assemblages (Biliotti excavations, 1868-71)
- Rachel Phillips (PhD) – Mycenaean Art and Society in the Late Bronze Age Aegean
Past students
- Ester Salgarella (PhD, 2018, second supersvisor) – Aegean Linear Script(s): rethinking the relationship between Linear A and Linear B; elected to a Junior Research Fellowship (St John’s College, Cambridge)
- Sam Sharma (MPhil, 2017); Tombs and Society in Mycenaean Greece –moved to a full-time job in education.
- Michael Loy (MPhil, 2016); Frogs Around the Pond: religious networks in the Saronic Gulf; continued to a fully-funded PhD.
- Roeland Decorte (MPhil, 2013); Rethinking the Minoan Order: wealth, exchange and social complexity in Palatial Crete; continued to a fully-funded PhD.
- Charles Sturge (MPhil, 2013); Inter-site Relations in the Palatial Argolid: revisiting the power dynamics of the Late Bronze Age; continued to a fully-funded PhD.
Other Professional Activities
- Chair of the Mycenaean Studies Advisory Committee, ICS, London
- Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Director of Archives and the Museum of Classical Archaeology
- Member of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
- Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Athens Archaeological Society
- Life member of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Editorial board member of Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA) and Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici n.s. (SMEA)
- Editor of Archaeological Reports (CUP) along with Dr Andrew Shapland: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-reports