Conservation

The choice of the archipelago of Fourni/Korseai as the field for conducting an underwater archaeological survey was never prominent. The national policy on conducting underwater surveys focuses mainly on maritime regions associated with influential terrestrial archaeological sites or areas that historically had particular geopolitical importance and played a crucial role in ancient and medieval navigation. Fourni, a place seemingly isolated, did not meet any of the above features. The ground stays silent, providing few archaeological remains and inscriptions that survived wind erosion. As with most small islands of the Aegean, there has never been intensive archaeological field investigation. The existing evidence from land surveys does not significantly differentiate Fourni from any other cluster of small or larger islands of the eastern Aegean.