1930

The chance find of the Kaminia Stele, an inscribed grave stele of a warrior, dating from 510 BC, in the village after which it is named, triggered investigations in the area. Consonant with the trend of the time for tracing ancestors and forging national ideals through demonstrating historical depth, the observed linguistic similarities between the text of the stele and Etruscan inscriptions brought the then director of the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (henceforth IASA), archaeologist Alessandro Della Seta, to Lemnos.

There he initiated extensive archaeological investigations, among the fruits of which was the unearthing of the prehistoric settlement at Poliochni.

Excavations by the IASA commenced in the summer of 1930 and were cut short in 1936.