lounging

[bacon]

Recently in a hotel lounge(not the drinking kind) I saw the following next to a display of decorative library books: αÏ￾χαιολογια with no accents or punctuation. Immediately above this is a picture of a bust of an ancient greek man, identity unknown to me.
Trying to put my incomplete first year Greek knowledge to work I have failed to come up with the meaning.
The direction I was going was the following
αÏ￾χαι feminine nominative plural- rulers or beginnings
o the article or relative pronoun, masculine and neuter respectively, neither of which fits
λογια feminine nominative singular- a collection for the poor(Liddell)

Does anyone know what this means, and can you help me with the parsing?
Thanks for any help.

[IreneY]

archaeology

the accent on iota

it's archaio = ancient
and logia = in this case it means the scientific study of what the first part of the word is (from logos)

[bacon]

Boy was I off, thanks Irene