Greece

A unique tribute to Leonardo da Vinci is coming to Athens. Three separate exhibitions on the ultimate Renaissance artist will be merged into one for the first time. The joint exhibition aims to create a rich audiovisual experience transporting visitors...

    The ubiquitous 'selfie' has become a part of modern life and on Wednesday Athens' Benaki Museum will be using them to encourage visitors to say 'cheese' in front of its valuable art collections. The first Museum Selfie Day was in January...

Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which...

Greek artist Teodosio Sectio Aurea creates unique and original pieces of art by masterfully playing with shadows and three-dimensional compositions. Aurea, self-taught, creates extremely detailed sculptures from metal and wire, which are bent and shaped to create a perfect shadow. At first...

For Greeks, wine is not just a simple consumer product, but reveals the way and quality of their life, traditions and culture. About this "cultural product with history and roots that stretch back thousands of years" and the efforts made...

March 25 is a very important date for Hellenism as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the Annunciation.

March 25 is a very important date for Hellenism as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the Annunciation.

What are the names that are mentioned more often than any other names in human history? That was one of the questions examined in an extensive study conducted by Pantheon, the new media lab of the Massachusetts Institute of...

While much of graffiti is mindless spray-painting and egotistical self-aggrandizing tagging, some Greek street artists are using their talents to paint murals of dissent against the country's crushing economic crisis and the people they blame, usually politicians, bankers and...

Four ancient Greek philosophers rank among a list from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of people who have most influenced the planet. They may have lived before almost 2,500 years ago, but Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes and Socrates are still the...