Eleusis and the Eleusinian MysteriesThe most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of the Sanctuary. He traces the history of the cult in the archaeological remains, from the first traces of habitation at the site in the Middle Bronze Age (around 1900 B. C.) to its final grandeur and decay in Imperial Roman times. A guided tour of the Museum