Despite international condemnation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan led the first Muslim prayer in Hagia Sophia in 86 years on Friday. Thousands of people attended the first prayer in and around Hagia Sophia. The…
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Turkish pro-government daily Daily Sabah, has published another article targeting Greece with falsities, historical inaccuracies and outright lies. The Daily Sabah, owned by Ahmet Çalık, a close associate of Turkish President Recep…
One of Greece’s most revered heroes, Theodoros Kolokotronis, had a statue in his honour vandalised in the central Greek town of Ramovouni, in the municipality of Oichalia. According to Eleftheria Online, the…
The Greek Culture Ministry on Wednesday announced that it would seek the repatriation of a 2,700-year-old bronze horse statue from New York which it says was illegally exported from Greece, after a…
Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS), responsible for the protection of the country’s cultural heritage, announced that the owner of a hotel constructed and operating in the historic centre of Athens blocking the…
Police arrested a 49 year old man on Monday for illegal possession of an ancient artefact, as he attempted to sell it for 500,000 euros. The artefact, a rare find of a…
Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented his case to the UN Climate Summit 2019 in New York yesterday, Monday, where he declared to adopt a resolution on the protection of the cultural and…
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will make a presentation today, Monday, at the UN Special Climate Conference concerning the risks posed by climate change to world cultural heritage, at the level of…
Skyros High School aims to be the first “green school” to meet the international environmental standards, defined by the “Green Destinations” programme with it’s energy upgrade plans which includes renewable energy sources,…
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras launched the first completed section of the now 95% completed metro train network of Thessaloniki on Saturday. During his address at the completed station at ‘Sintrivani-Ekthesi’ Tsipras…
Greek police have arrested a 55 year old man in Larissa over the illegal possession of 693 ancient coins and other related artefacts. Police from Ioannina had conducted the coordinated operation which…
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotsias attended the meeting of the Forum of Ancient Civilisations in New York after completing his meetings in the framework of the 73rd Session of the UN General…