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Description: Home Page - Location in ancient Thessaly of the homeland of Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, has eluded scholars for centuries. New research is revealing.

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" With the identification of Homer’s  Phthia  in southeastern  Thessaly  at Pharsala the time is ripe for that godlike legend, Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, to fulfill his destiny – facing death in order to live eternally.  History lost in the shadows and ravages of time (3200 years) can now rightfully be returned to his people – the people of the  Pelasgian  Argos in  Thessaly  whom  Homer called Hellenes from Hellas and  Phthia , the kingdom of Achilles and his father Peleus. "

“The Achilles Foundation” is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization as designated by the Internal Revenue Service in September 2009.  Along with other funding sources being developed it has been established as a Florida corporation primarily in support of “The Achilles Project” in Greece plus the development of other key ancient sites as time, staffing, funding, and government approvals allow.  To provide for summer, on-site accommodations, meeting and storage facilities for researchers, archaeologists, student

Along with the resurrection of the homeland of Achilles, many ancient sites lay dormant waiting for interested institutions.  Among these is the site where Greece received its name,  Hellas, also the site of Asclepius at  Trikala , the world’s first medical healer whose health spas doted the eastern Mediterranean, plus the magnificent sites surrounding the city of  Volos , all these sites located in the province of  Thessaly .  These are just a sampling of the hundreds typically lying dormant covered by sev

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