Greek News

On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium, the only stadium in the world built entirely of marble. Athens was chosen to honor the birthplace of the...

How did people in Ancient Greece view love? What did the greatest thinkers of antiquity say about the eternal quest of finding a soulmate?

The Old Town of Xanthi in northern Greece is a beautiful destination steeped in history and characterized by rare architecture influenced by the many different cultures in its past. Amphitheatrically built on the foot of Rhodope mountain chain, the city...

Monemvasia, one of Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited castle towns in the Peloponnese in Greece will soon be equipped with a cable car making it fully accessible by the end of 2024. The cable car, budgeted at 6.8 million euros, will...

Ephialtes of Trachis, whose name means "nightmare" in Greek is regarded as one of the most notorious traitors in the history of Greece. Ephialtes played a significant role in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC by leading the Persian...

A major wildfire - the first of the summer season in Greece, rages on Saturday near Ierapetra, southern Crete. Authorities have ordered the evacuation of several villages threatened by the flames aided by strong winds. Dozens of firefighters and fire-dousing...

The Greek Orthodox use the calendar devised by Julius Caesar -- the Roman general turned dictator -- versus the calendar tweaked by the Pope.

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar warned on Friday that “one tiny mistake” could turn Cyprus into “a new Gaza”. Tatar, not recognized as a head of state by the international community, also suggested that Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan may soon...

Greece signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) on Friday making official its intent to procure 35 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters built by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, through an intergovernmental agreement with the US. This transaction with Sikorsky...

Elon Musk claims he is going to raise salaries for Tesla engineers because Sam Altman's OpenAI, the world leader in generative artificial intelligence, keeps trying to poach them. Has OpenAI been poaching Tesla engineers from Elon Musk? On Wednesday, news came...

Have you ever wondered about the origins of many common English phrases like "Achilles' heel" or "Pandora's box?" Many of these expressions that are used quite often in English have deep roots in the rich language, culture, and mythology...

A new exhibition at the Allard Museum in Amsterdam displays Greek mummy portraits discovered in Fayoum, Egypt. These were found in a monumental funerary building dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. Having been uncovered in December 2022 at...

In June 2023, an archaeological find in the Peloponnese rewrote ancient Greek history, in one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade. Stone tools dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic period, estimated to be around 3.3 million to 300,000...

The small and remote Italian island of Alicudi, home to just 100 residents, is overrun by goats that now outnumber the human population by a ratio of about six to one. Desperate to address the situation, the local mayor, Riccardo...

Passenger traffic at the Athens International Airport (AIA) rose 20.1 percent in March 2024, compared to March 2023, with passengers reaching 2 million. According to the Athens International Airport statistics, domestic and international passenger traffic exceeded 2023 levels by 12.6...