Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975)[1] is an American classicist and archaeologist, and is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
[2] He is also co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project.
[3] He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A., and from the University of Texas with a Ph.D. Nakassis's work focuses on the archaeology and scripts of Mycenaean Greece, in particular the administrative practices of the state.
[4] His findings are challenging assumptions that the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece had little in common with the democratic city-states of Ancient Greece.
[5] Since 2013, he has co-directed a project using Reflectance Transformation Imaging to create detailed 3D images of the Linear B tablets found in the Palace of Nestor.