Exhibition–Princes of Pylos
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These crucial findings are on display to the public for the first time. Archaeologists Jack L. Davis and Sharon R. Stocker of the University of Cincinnati discovered the tomb of Griffin the Warrior in 2015 in Pylos. The excavations were carried out under the direct supervision of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia.
The exhibition "Princes of Pilos" opens at the Museum of Messenia in Kalamata on February 15th, 2025, and remains there until April 26th. The exhibition opens in June at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California, in Athens at the Greek National Archaeological Museum in the first half of 2026, and finally comes to the Archaeological Museum of Chora in Messenia that fall. Each artefact on display has an archaeological context; most are unpublished. The Griffin Warrior, the new vault tombs found in 2018, and the Palace of Nestor are located within the broader context of Mycenaean sites throughout Messinia, the Kingdom of Nestor.
Claire Lyons and Nicole Brandrovich will curate the exhibition, which will include finds from the Jean Paul Getty Museum's Department of Antiquities, Evangelia Militsi, head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia, and excavators Sharon Stocker and Jack Davis, former directors of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. These fabulous finds from the "Griffin Warrior tomb" have never been exhibited to the public before.