Valerios Stais
Male, Deceased Person
1857 – 1923
Who was Valerios Stais?
Valerios Stais was a Greek archaeologist. He was born in Kythera. He studied medicine and later archaeology. He became the director of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens in 1887 and held that post until his death. During that period he organized or participated in excavations in Epidaurus, Argolis, Attica, Dimini, Antikythera and elsewhere. He also wrote a lot of archaeological studies, published in various papers and mainly in Archeologiki Efimeris, and many books.
Valerios Stais also became the first to recognise the Antikythera mechanism from the lumps of archaeological material which was retrieved from the wreck.
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