Dr Archaeologist
Head of the Department of Prehistoric, Egyptian, Cypriot and Near Eastern Antiquities Collections
knikolentzos@culture.gr

Mr. Konstantinos Nikolentzos was born in Athens in 1972. He studied Archeology and History of Art at the University of Athens, where he has also supported his doctoral thesis on “Mycenaean Elis: Cultural and Political Evolution, Ethnological Data and Problems”, after he had previously completed his Master in Prehistoric Archaeology. At the same time, he worked as an archaeologist in various regional or central administrative entities of the Ministry of Culture (5th and 7th Ephorates of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, National Archive of Monuments, Epigraphic Museum).

After graduating the National School of Public Administration (in 2003) he was initially appointed to the General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage and he had worked as an archaeologist at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Elis (2006-2010), then at the Directorate for the Documentation and Protection of Cultural Properties (2010-2015). Since 2015 he is the Head of the Department of Prehistoric, Egyptian, Cypriot and Oriental Antiquities Collections at the National Archaeological Museum.

His scientific interests are focused on the Late Bronze Age in mainland Greece, as well as the history of Archeology and its perception in modern Greece.