The International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) associates institutions and scholars from different countries for the international cooperation in the field of Classical Archaeology.
AIAC, founded in Rome in 1945, manages Fasti Online (www.fastionline.org), an international database of archaeological excavations; it also organizes periodical meetings in Rome for scholarship holders and PhD students in Classical Archaeology coming from different countries, every five years it coordinates the International Convention of Classical Archaeology.
The Italian School of Archaeology of Athens, was founded with royal decree only in 1909 but was preceded by a long preliminary phase, that occupies the years between 1884 and 1908, a period during which they conducted many research activities that led to the discoveries of Festòs, Haghia Triada, Priniàs, Gortyna, Antro Ideo, Axòs, Lebena, Kamares, Arkades, to cite only the most famous ones.