Museum staff

Eleni Mangou is chemist and Head of the Chemical and Physical Research Department of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens since 1979.

She has a Bsc in Chemistry and a PhD from Patras University as well as an Msc in Archaeometallurgy and a Certificate in Archaeological Conservation from the Institute of Archaeology of London University.

Her PhD subject is on the Copper and its alloys in prehistoric Greece by examination of ancient copper artifacts from Aegean area, Crete and Mainland Greece dated to 4.000-1.000 B.C.

Her publications include 43 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings as well as many contributions to archaeological monographs.

She has worked as a researcher in the Chemical Technology of the Chemistry Department of Patras University for six years (1973-1979).

She is member of the Greek Chemists’s Society, of the Greek Archaeometry Society and of the International Institute of Conservation of Works of Arts-Greek group.

Her research interestings are on the technology of ancient objects as metals, glass, faience, ceramic, organic materials and colours, on the research of conservation of ancient objects as well as on authentication problems. She has published a joint book with the conservator Th. Margiolopoulos on ‘Leather:Technology-Degratation-Conservation-Analysis’.

She has collaborated on the examination of the Antikythera Mechanism with radiographic X-rays techniques with Bromley and Wright in 1990 (Linear Tomography) and with the Group of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project in 2005 (3D Microfocus X-Ray Tomography).

Mary Zafeiropoulou († 2019) was a curator of antiquities in the Bronze Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, where she was dealing especially with the Antikythera Mechanism, discovering some new fragments. She studied history and archaeology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and also holded a degree in English Literature from the same university. She had a MA in Museum Studies from Leicester University and her dissertation was on “ The role and development of Archaeological Museums in Greece ”.

She has worked at the British, Birmingham and Leicestershire Museums and since 1973 in the Greek Archaeological Service conducting many excavations in Thasos, Seres, Athens and Eleusis. She has contributed to the writing of catalogues for exhibitions organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture, and to various publications.