Metal places: Crossroads of culture in the Eastern Mediterranean
GREECE , 2023, 55’
Director: Ioannis Skopeteas – Producer: The Ephorate of Antiquities for the Cyclades, Ministry of Culture
The culture of mines and metals, and most notably copper, in the 2nd and 3rd millennium BC in the eastern Mediterranean to the 20th-century mining culture exploiting ancient mine sites up until the 1970s when they closed down. What remains of the ancient and modern mines today?
The Ephorate of Antiquities for the Cyclades, Demokritos NCSR, the Municipality of Siphnos, the University of Cyprus Archaeological Research Unit and the Asgata Community, Cyprus have created eleven new walking trails on the thin line that connects the past of ancient mines with today. They invite us to walk in Asgata, Cyprus and the Western Cyclades –οn Siphnos, Seriphos, and Kythnos islands. The film hosts the routes, the archaeological findings on which they were based, and the researchers who worked for years to map them out.
