Bone Memories of a Polis
Biographies of Social Order and Unrest in Athens before democracy
Welcome to Bo.Me.Po.
Bo.Me.Po. is dedicated to the most intriguing discovery of the last decades in Athens that utterly changed scholarly perceptions on early Athenian society and its funerary landscape: the second largest necropolis in Attica, laying below the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center at the Phaleron Delta in Athens.
Attica’s second-largest necropolis
below the SNFCC in Phaleron Delta
The Skeletons
More than 500 skeletons, including many of violently killed deceased, form the basis of a multidisciplinary study which aims at elucidating the complex sociopolitical background of Athens during the 7th century while reconstructing modes of life and human identities.
Memories of the Past
The study of the skeletons from Phaleron are of pivotal importance for Bo.Me.Po, not merely as archaeological remnants, but as having a constitutive role in the reconstruction and memory of the past.