Since the early years of my life as a student of the Dental School of the University of Athens and the Medical School of the same University, but also during my professional career and my academic course in Greece and abroad, my interest was focused in Greek history, archaeology and skeletal anthropology, more specifically to the “craniofacial complex” of ancient and modern Greeks.

I was lucky to have enlightened teachers, as the philologist Spyros Kostopoulos, the chemist Kostas Manolikidis, the physicist Antonis Makris, the professor of Medicine Spyros Moulopoulos, the orthodontists Per Rygh and Per Johan Wisth, professors at the University of Bergen, Norway, as well as excellent friends, the archeologist Vangelis Pentazos and paedo-psychiatrist George Karatsiolis, all of whom, each in his own way, inspired me in the magical search for knowledge that led me up “face to face” with Myrtis!

Manolis J. Papagrigorakis