Excavations were carried out at Lindos in the years 1900-1914 and in 1952 by the Carlsberg Institute of Denmark, directed in the first period by Kinch and Blinkenberg and by E. Dyggve in the second. In the first period the archaeological site was excavated down to bedrock. All the buildings on the Acropolis were uncovered as well as the Lindos necropolis, which spread over the surrounding hills. In the second period a careful study was made of the buildings already revealed.