Greece

Greek Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni met on Monday with a New York City assistant prosecutor over the repatriation of an 8th century BC bronze statuette which was illegally exported from Greek territory. The Greek minister met with...

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that an ancient marble engraved column of Attica style, likely a tombstone, was repatriated to Greece. The object was illegally exported from Greece and it was found at an auction of antiquities...

An inspection carried out at the port of Chios by members of the Special Missions and the Port Authority Security Office, identified two transport pallets carrying 8 jars full of antiquities, just before being loaded onto a passenger ferry boat....

Hellenic Police on Saturday arrested three men at Grevena, northwestern Greece, for illegal possession of antiquities of particular archaeological and scientific value. According to the Athens News Agency, the three men, 42, 52 and 63 years old, had in their...

The German Embassy in Athens, Greece, and Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe curator Dr. Katarina Horst inaugurated on Monday the exhibition "Eurolog: Europe in Dialogue with Antiquity" that is held at the Athens International Airport between March 16-29. "Why get to know the...

A Neolithic site in central Greece was named as one of ten most important archaeological discoveries of 2013, on a list compiled by web-based magazine Heritage Daily that specialises in cultural news from the world and all historical periods. The...

The unique “treasures” from the land of Cyprus – every artifact comes from the great collection of Thanos Zintilis –  are of significant historical value for the Mediterranean island. The public of Athens is now about to welcome them...

Attica prefecture security police announced late Thursday that with the cooperation of the Culture Ministry, they have now solved the April 15, 2011 case of a major theft.  The theft concerned stolen antiquities from the archaeological site of Elefsina. Police located...

It may be a slight exaggeration, but for many locals, the town of Aitoliko, situated on an island between two lagoons in western Greece is their own, smaller version of Venice. The old part of the town lies quite romantically...

A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic discoveries.

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...

Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, is both historic and avant-garde, and an ideal destination for a short city break.

Ayios Ioannis Church in Argos was the site of a commemoration of the life of notable former slave and American philhellene James Williams.

The skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath in the shape of a laurel branch still attached to it is perhaps one of the most impressive exhibits in Greece. The flesh disintegrated after 2,500 years, but the wreath...

Romeyka is a dialect of Greek spoken in the region of Trabzon (Trapezounta) and Pontus, around Turkey's Black Sea coast. Researchers say it bears striking resemblances to ancient Greek dialects. Its speakers are Muslims but many also trace their lineage...