This website offers an introduction for students and others to the methods and approaches of archaeology. The introduction focuses on the island of Crete - in particular, a region of Crete called Sphakia - and it discusses excavation, field survey and art history. The course covers three main epochs: Prehistoric, Graeco-Roman and Medieval-Modern, ranging in date from ca. 3000 BC to AD 1900.

The site, which is freely available to all, could be used in any courses in Archaeology, Classics, and History which require an introduction to archaeological methods, or which make use of case studies on the relationship between Archaeology and History.