A shallow seismic survey was carried out at the archaeological site of Itanos,Crete to locate and map the ancient port.The target layer in the area surveyed consists of Permian^Triassic phyllites covered byalluvialdeposits.Seismicrefractionandreflectionexperimentswere carried out along eight profiles with a totallength 580 m. The seismicrefraction data depict tworefractors.Shear-wavevelocitiesindicatethat the first refractor, at depths ranging from 1 to 2 m, corresponds to the water table. The second one corresponds to the top of phyllites.The stacked section from the seismic reflection survey shows two major reflectors, attributed to the top andbottom ofthe eroded phyllites.Athree-dimensionalimage ofthe basement reliefindicated the potential shape and extent of Itanos port.Thisresult isfurthersupportedbyanthropogenic anomaliesontheresistivitymapsandsectionsobserved at locations where the depth to the top of the basement is small.The integration of the seismic data, aerialimageryandarchaeologicalfindingsindicatedthat theancient port, nowcoveredbyrecent deposits, was surrounded by the sea, the two acropolis to the north, a well to the east and a hill to the south

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