Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist, author, and academic (died 1974)

Spyridon Marinatos

Greek archaeologist (1901–1974)

Spyridon Marinatos was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations of the Aegean Bronze Age. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Thera, which he conducted between 1967 and 1974. He received many honours in…