“My goal was to create a church that creates the illusion of motion. It feels like the Holy Spirit moves around its axis, God himself moves around its axis, as the church has no obvious front and back,” Greek architect Costas Papatheodorou said about his creation – the Orthodox church of Agia Fotini of Mantinea – which has become known as the second most mysterious church in the world.
Archeologists uncovered a 1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient city of Perge, now in Turkey’s Mediterranean Antalya province, on Monday. “First sculpture of 2020 found in…
Figs have been popular in the Mediterranean since ancient times; reported to have been first cultivated in Egypt and then spread first to Ancient Greece. Nowadays Greece is one of the largest…
Ubisoft is offering free downloads of its educational tours of ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, which are based on the studio’s recreations of those worlds in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. You can…
Protomagia (May 1st) is International Labour Day in Greece and it is a holiday where people traditionally go to the countryside for picnics, to fly kites and to gather flowers. Today, Greeks…
As one of the great civilisations of classical antiquity, Ancient Greece is known for its many fundamental insights which have since become part of the foundation for the ideas of Western civilisation,…
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the…
Donald Trump, Prime Minister of the United States has issued a proclamation on Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy, which you can read here- Our…
The Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Kolonaki, Athens, features more than 100 inventions, which prove that the Ancient Greeks were way ahead of their time, as they had created amongst…
Thirty small lead tablets engraved with ancient curses were found down a 2,500-year-old water well in the area of Kerameikos, ancient Athens’ main burial ground. The small tablets invoked the gods of the…
When Ancient Greece and Ancient China crossed paths they went to war over ‘heavenly horses,’ the result of which was the cause for the creation of the famous Silk Road. *Watch the…
By Maria Athanasopoulou When there is a wish to find out as much as possible about Ancient Greece, then a visit to the Acropolis Museum in Athens is a must. This is…
The Greek Ministry of Culture announced that archaeologists have discovered large quantities of murex seashells and Minoan-era buildings during excavations conducted by Lasithi Antiquities Ephorate on the western part of the islet…
The US Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey Pyatt met with Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Wednesday, where he emphasised the need for greater collaboration with Greece on cultural issues. The meeting comes…
Walking passed Hellas House in the centre of Shanghai would have you believe you were in the upscale Athenian suburb of Kolonaki or Kifissia, however, this stunning Greek Culture and Lifestyle Centre…
Greece’s President Prokopis Pavlopoulos honoured Professor Macleod Beaton, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History at the University of London, at a special ceremony at the Presidential Mansion on Monday. The President…
An archaeological shipwreck from the 3rd Century BC has been found at the bottom of the sea in Greece, filled with treasure troves from the Aegean. The five major wrecks were made…
By Uzay Bulut On June 21, Turkish media reported that the Saint-Jean Theologos Greek Girls School in Smyrna, now known as Izmir, which has been empty since the extermination of the city’s Greek Christians in 1922,…
Dolce & Gabbana’s Alta Moda Fashion Show took place in the southern Sicilian town of Agrigento over the weekend and featured outfits inspired by Ancient Greece. The Alta Moda took place in…
By Stamatina Mylonas Many people may not know this, but in ancient Greece there was a widely popular and respected form of martial arts called Pankration. The name stems from the Greek…