Corinth’s Lechaion Harbor and Settlement 2025

Dr. Paul Scotton, Professor of Classics at CSULB & Co-Director, Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project

2025 marked the final season of this excavation cycle—and it was a rich one. In Area A, archaeologists uncovered a small dye workshop filled with thousands of murex shells and heating installations, along with remnants of two Early Byzantine buildings built after the earthquake that devastated the site.

Other areas were just as revealing: Area B produced a tight scatter of more than 100 coins and the remains of a donkey crushed when the building collapsed. Area C exposed a dramatic late 5th-century destruction layer, complete with inscribed mortar—including one piece bearing a drawn fish. And in Area D, the team finished excavating a mausoleum’s inner chamber and discovered five tile graves built right against its outer wall.