Greece

A woman living in the refugee facility of Ritsona on the island of Euboea (Evia) has tested positive for the coronavirus after going to an Athens hospital to give birth two days earlier. The information was made public by Greece's...

A Roma couple in Katerini, Greece, have been arrested for presenting as their own a female infant who, DNA testing proved, has no biological relationship to them. According to the Greek police, the couple had managed to obtain a birth certificate for...

The Chios massacre of 1822 was perhaps the worst atrocity carried out by the Ottomans against Greeks during the Greek War of Independence.

  For Greeks, August 15 is one of the most important holidays on the calendar, but it is an especially huge day in Tinos. It's vacation time for most working Greeks, and a celebration of all the Marias, Marios, Panagiotis,...

Vampires are some of the most famous creatures of the horror, and now romance, genres. The folklore of countless cultures around the world features some sort of vampire figure, and Greece's Vrykolakas is no different. The Greek vampire is an...

The Trojan Women is a genocide narrative. In this play, the great Athenian dramatist Euripides explores the enslavement of women, human sacrifice, rape, and infanticide.  By Chris Mackie The story of the long struggle for the life of the city of...

Greek adoptee Linda Carol Trotter, through The Eftychia Project, provides assistance and support to Greek adoptees searching for their roots.

Found with a metal detector in his hand, a 68-year old man was arrested on Sunday for illegally excavating in the archaeological site of Amphipolis.

The Chios massacre of 1822 was perhaps the worst atrocity carried out by the Ottomans against Greeks during the War of Independence. Approximately three-quarters of the population of 120,000 were killed, enslaved or died of disease after thousands of Turkish...

A 27-year-old female Afghan refugee burned to death early on Thursday morning in the container in which she was living with her family in the Cara Tepe refugee camp, on the island of Lesvos. The woman was living in the...

The population of Greece experienced a decrease in 2018, with the nation having 33,857 more deaths than the number of births recorded, according to official data released on Tuesday by the Greek statistical service, ELSTAT. There were a total of...

A 13-year-old girl from the town of Lavrio, southeast of Athens, has given birth at a clinic in the Greek capital. In an announcement on Thursday the clinic said that both mother and infant are in good health and are...

An increase in births and a decrease in deaths was recorded in 2016, compared to 2015, according to the Greek Statistical Office (ELSTAT). Despite this, however, the number of deaths recorded in Greece in 2016 continues to be higher than...

By Andrew Chugg* An announcement by the Greek Ministry of Culture on 19th January 2015 has revealed that the skeletal remains uncovered by archaeologists in November 2014 within the tomb beneath the Kasta Mound at Amphipolis, Greece , comprised around...

The search for the identity of the buried in the Amphipolis tomb, Greece, has led archaeologists and historians to create new scenarios, with family ties between the five dead being one of them. However, historians speculate that the 60-year-old female...