The Acropolis Museum in the Greek capital has organised a number of events for visitors…
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The “Tiger Meet” exercise is held until May 20, at Araxos Air Base and is…
Two anti-war banners relating to Ukraine, one in English and one in Greek, was hung…
It’s Sunday, April 27, 1941. A military procession, consisting of two motorcycles, a Kubelwagen and…
Greece and the US signed an updated memorandum of understanding on tourism cooperation on Monday,…
A mixed formation of fighter aircraft will fly over the Acropolis Hill on Friday afternoon,…
Manolis Glezos, a Greek left-wing politician best known for his participation in the World War…
Could cutting-edge science provide the solution to Greece’s decades- long campaign concerning the return of…
Australian superstar Tina Arena reflected on her amazing experience performing in the Herodes Atticus amphitheatre…
In the opening lines of Homer’s Odyssey the wandering hero Odysseus longs for the day…
Described as an “Ocean’s Eleven minus Brad Pitt meets Dan Brown, Byron and Thucydides”, ‘The Aegean Seven’ is a new historical fiction by Billy Cotsis for those who want to know more about the period in which and how the Parthenon Sculptures were taken. Despite many of the characters being purely fiction, the novel lays out what happened and how it happened on the eve of the Greek Revolution and freedom.
In Greece as in every other country around the world, there are certain days that entering the…
The Dutch Royals, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima have announced an official state visit to…
Irina Korobina, chairwoman of the Russian Commission for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, likened…
On February 8, 1912, Emmanouil Argyropoulos (Εμμανουήλ Αργυρόπουλος) became the first Greek pilot to perform…
The Elpis snowstorm brought wintery conditions that are usually unfamiliar to Athens. Such rare conditions…
On the occasion of the return of fragments of the Parthenon to Greece from the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Sicily, George Vardas gives us a glimpse into its fragmented history…
The Presidential Guard (Προεδρική Φρουρά) are the epitome of bravery and freedom, honouring the heroes thousands of years on, who fought and sacrificed for the land on which they stand on.
A city that is ever-evolving, Athens has no shortage of places to explore. Once you’ve…
The new Chair of the Trustees of the British Museum, George Osborne, in a recent…