Angeliki Kottaridi

Angeliki Kottaridi studied Classical, Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient and Medieval Literature, Ethnology and Theatrology at the University of Cologne in Germany, where she earned her PhD. She has been a member of staff of the Greek Ministry of Culture since 1991, and since 2010 a Director of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, and of Byzantine Antiquities, for the Ministry. She is Director of four museums (Aigai, Pella, Archaeological and Byzantine of Veroia.)...See more

Angeliki Kottaridi studied Classical, Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient and Medieval Literature, Ethnology and Theatrology at the University of Cologne in Germany, where she earned her PhD. She has been a member of staff of the Greek Ministry of Culture since 1991, and since 2010 a Director of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, and of Byzantine Antiquities, for the Ministry. She is Director of four museums (Aigai, Pella, Archaeological and Byzantine of Veroia.) Principally a field archaeologist, she has produced many important research projects comprising excavations, as well as surface surveys, and also systematic studies, documentation and composite publications. She has participated in the organisations of many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, among which the most prominent is the exhibition 'From Herakles to Alexander the Great. Treasures from the royal capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdon in an age of Democracy', organised at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 2011. In 2008 she was awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of the Greek Democracy for her scientific work. See less