In the last fifteen years, the “archeology of memory” has become increasingly important in the studies of ancient Mediterranean societies. Social practices related to the reuse of the past are highlighted and hold an important place in the reconsideration of notions such as continuity, break and transmission. Despite this, in the study of Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, antiquities get very little of all the attention drawn on material production. Regarding the early Iron Age, whereas various memorial phenomena, such as settlement permanence, religious “continuity”, heroes or ancestors worships or the reuse of ruins for cultic or funerary purpose, enjoyed quite the attention, very little has been paid to the long conservation of ancient artefacts. This lack of interest comes from the fact that few of those artefacts are recognized as such, and that hardly ever a parallel is drawn between them and other relevant circumstances. The aim of this contribution is to introduce a method of defining and analyzing these antiquities, using archaeological definitions, by using the tool social sciences provide us with, as well as ethnographic parallels. We will see how the analysis of a corpus of antiquities allow us to understand, from a different point of view, the political, cultural and social phenomena in the Aegean world during LBA and EIA. This requires to take into account the various contexts of social interaction, such as the ritual aspect, the funerary one, but also the domestic and the community-based one. The island of Euboea will be addressed as a regional study, through the sites of Lefkandi and Eretria where several antiquities, bronze-aged as well as iron-aged, have been found. The contextualization of these different antiquities, in conjunction with other forms of remembrance, shows how the memory of the Ancients Greeks could be embodied in objects of the everyday life, as well as in luxurious productions, sometimes exotics. In the same way, the role they might have played in the legitimating and promoting new social-political forms will also be taken into consideration.