Greece

Science has shown that anyone can attain a super memory with the ability to retain a vast amount of information for a long time by using an ancient Greek and Roman technique called "memory palace." After forty days of daily...

Michael Goodyear* May 29, 1453: the final Ottoman assault on Constantinople succeeds. Ottoman cannon fire had battered the great Theodosian Walls of the city. The last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos-Dragases, had torn off his imperial regalia and died fighting...

Archaeologists and scholars have spent nearly a century investigating what happened to Alexander the Great and where his tomb is located. Some argue that his tomb is in Macedonia, northern Greece, while others claim it is in Alexandria, Egypt,...

The Diolkos stone road, an ancient Greek engineering marvel, allowed ships to travel overland from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean, bypassing the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Like the Corinth Canal, which was finally constructed millennia later, it made passage around the...

Syntagma Square has literally been the very heart of Athens ever since the city became the capital of the modern Greek state.

Corfu, the birthplace of Prince Philip, honored his memory in a ceremony held at the Church of Agios Spyridon.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was in Cyprus to attend the funeral of former Cyprus president and AKEL leader, Demetris Christofias, said that the memory of the Cypriot leader will always burn bright. Tsipras, accompanied by Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades,...

At first sight it may remind you of Plaka in Athens but do not let that look fool you. It may even provoke the same pride and guarantee a favorable response to the same past glory questions, but a...

By Andrew Chugg* The archaeological team responsible for the recent excavation campaigns at the Amphipolis Tomb gave a lecture on 30th September 2015 in which they presented evidence which they argued indicates that the monument was built on the orders...

The magical August full moon will be celebrated across Greece with many museums and Greek archaeological sites staying open until midnight and presenting various events free of charge on August 10. For the fourth consecutive year, the August full moon events offer great opportunity...

The British auction house Coys will include in this year's auction about 130 classic cars and motorcycles mostly from the 1970s, some of them belonging to government officials such as the late Greek President of the Republic, Konstantinos Karamanlis. The auction includes a Lancia...

By Nota Karamaouna* - One of the fundamental features of Thessaloniki – Greece’s second city, sometimes known as Salonica – since its very foundation in 315 BC was its multicultural character. The city, a key highlight on our Exploring Greece:...

On the morning of April 21, 1967, Greeks suddenly found tanks in the streets of Athens as a coup of military leaders staged a junta that became known as The Regime of The Colonels and brought seven years of...

The group “Awakening Volunteers” organizes a 300 km march in honor  of  the Cyprus National Guard Naval Base in memory of the 13 victims killed during an explosion last month. The volunteers will walk along all the free territories of...

A beautiful woodcut portrait of Lady Diana that was carved by an 83-year-old Cretan has become well-known around the world after its creator received a warm thank you letter from Buckingham Palace. Princes William and Harry sent him the letter to...