Hercules fighting Centaurs. Boeotian black-figure kantharos. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, München.

2nd Circular

Call for papers

The Annual SEAC Meeting 2026 will be held at the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, from 4 to 8 September 2026. Scientists active in cultural astronomy (archeoastronomy, ethnoastronomy, creative astronomy in culture), history of astronomy, and related fields are invited to part...

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Galaxy NGC 5128, hosts the radio source Centaurus A. Shown in a combination of visible light and gamma rays, © NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, Capella Observatory

1st Circular

Annual meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture 2026

The Annual SEAC Meeting 2026 will be held at the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, from 4 to 8 September 2026. Scientists active in archaeoastronomy, ethnoastronomy, cultural astronomy, history of astronomy, and related fiel...

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Summer solstice sunset in Dimini. © L. Zacheilas.

Archaeoastronomy in Volos

Volos is not particularly known for archaeoastronomy sites. However, there are things of interest:

The Centaurs

Centaurs fighting along humans Pilion rises impressively above Volos. This is the mountain of the centaurs, half men, half horses. Two centaurs appear as constellations in the night sky: Centaur (associated with th...

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Volos as seen from Pelion during sunset. © G. Merakos / GNTO

Our website is ready

The website for SEAC XXXIII has been launched.

For the moment it contains travel info and the tentative schedule of the conference. But we will make sure that it is filled with more pages soon!

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