Financial support to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for the recruitment of three Greek trained conservators for the Malcom H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science in Athens, with the aim of preserving and recording the remaining osteological material excavated at the ancient cemetery at the Faliron Delta. The ancient cemetery at the Faliron Delta is the largest cemetery to be discovered in the long history of excavations in Attica, with 1000 burials of adults and 500 children, as well as horse burials.
The mass graves of people with traces of violence from metal or non-metal bonds, inside the cemetery fabric, raise huge questions about their identity and their relationship with the city of Athens. The ancient cemetery at Faliron is a unique phenomenon, not only for Greece but for Europe, and needs to be studied in great detail.