MITROU
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT
The Mitrou Archaeological Project (MAP) is a cooperative venture between the University of Tennessee, under the Aegis of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Greek Archaeological Service. MAP is co-directed by Professor Aleydis Van de Moortel of the Classics Department at the University of Tennessee, and by Dr. Efi Karantzali, director of the Archaeological Ephoreia of Phthiotida and Eurytania.
GARDENS OF THE
HESPERIDES
A joint Moroccan-American (INSAP-University of Tennessee) collaboration, the Gardens of the Hesperides: The Rural Archaeology of the Loukkos Valley comprises a multi-year archaeological project to survey and reconstruct the economic development of the Loukkos river valley, the site of the ancient city of Lixus (near Larache, Morocco)—one of the oldest cities in northwestern Africa, and in classical mythology, one of the purported locations of the Gardens of the Hesperides.