Greece

The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Thursday that a new storage room for valuables in Zominthos Palace, on the plateau of Mount Psiloritis on Crete, was discovered at the sprawling site during this year's excavation season. Supporting evidence for the Palace...

A limited number of files on Cyprus, dating back to 1976, have been included in the latest release of Foreign Office archives in London. The files include a letter by the then Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, (dated 28 January 1976)...

After 43 years, archives that were locked away and sealed will be released to contribute in efforts to ascertain the fate of missing persons, said the Defence Ministers of Cyprus and Greece, Christoforos Fokaides and Panos Kammenos respectively after...

Relatives of missing persons in Cyprus have called upon the Turkish army to release all information regarding the fate of their beloved ones. In statements to the Cyprus News Agency, Executive Secretary of the Pancyprian Organization of the Relatives of Undeclared...

The Greek public television legacy is once more available via the website hprt-archives.gr. Thousands of digitized records, with full documentation of the Greek Public Television archive manages to capture the history and evolution of Greece from the late '60s until...

Greek-Canadian entrepreneur George Stroumboulis, who already has two enterprises promoting purchases of property in Greece to his credit, now is operating Save the Archives.com, hoping to preserve the migration history of Greek immigrants through the digitization of entry archives. With...

By Ingka Athanasiadou It is ironic that one can find so much information about the lives of Byzantine women in the archives of Mount Athos, a holy mountain to which access has always been denied to members of the female...

The new austerity legislation passed on Sunday has triggered rage, violent outbursts and looting in the city of Athens, but these were not the only attacks. The “Greek Hacking Scene” attacked the official website of the country’s General State Archives...

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

The Oath of the Greek War of Independence was taken by the chieftains on March 23, 1821 after they liberated Kalamata from the Ottomans

Greek folk songs of the 1821 Revolution not only told stories of brave revolutionaries, but also served as historical texts and diffusors of tradition

The peninsula of Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit.

Pierre Cardin, who passed away in late December, designed the Olympic Airways flight attendant uniforms in the glory days of the airline.

The Patriarchal Monastery of Agia Triada Tsagarolon (Holy Trinity), located on the Akrotiri Peninsula fn the island of Crete, was built in the seventeenth century by two brothers, Jeremiah and Lorenzo, who belonged to the old, noble Venetian family...

More than fifty years ago, the Beatles travelled to Greece with the aim of buying an island.  By Jonathan Knott In July 1967, the Beatles were ascending new heights of fame and creative capacity. They had recently released the groundbreaking album...