Ismini!

Hey, Ismini!

Ismini ...!

My father and my family are from here.

I used to spend my summers here and we heard that they were starting to excavate this area.

It so happened that it was on my family's land, so it was really exciting.

And my mom was just sort of videotaping around in general.

I think we had probably just had a video camera for a little while.

And she's filming everything.

Here we are on the inside ... As you can see there's a circle.

The stones ... Of course, I'm going to talk!

I was about, I guess, 14 or 15, I guess 15 probably.

That's the head archeologist right there.

I was always really excited and interested in archeology.

And so I would come and watch what they did every day.

And it just really was something that really was important to me.

When the excavation started, of course I went a lot, but I had three small children to take care of.

And the shop.

And we rented rooms.

So I was running around all day anyways.

So I didn't have so much opportunity to go so often.

But I went there regularly.

Maki was there almost every day.

To be there, you know, when they're digging up these thousand-of-year-old bones and, you know, pieces of pottery and other things, like it's a different experience.

They found pottery shards, Ismini says.

Ismini says it looks like pottery shards.

Where?

- In that box.

It looks like bones.

When they arrived at the floor of the tholos tomb, they cleaned the whole tholos tomb and they were on this level, there was nothing, absolutely nothing!

So that was a kind of, "What's happening here?"

I mean, that was so strange.

And then if you would stamp on the floor with your foot, you could hear that it was hollow underneath.

And then they discovered that the floor was not a floor, and there were ancient burials under the floor.