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Former US president Barack Obama has reportedly arrived in Greece where he is scheduled to participate in an international conference held in Athens next week. Reports in the Greek media say that Obama is currently on the island of Antiparos...

The Athens Epidaurus Festival opened on Thursday at the magnificent Odeon of Herodes Atticus below the Acropolis with a sold-out premiere of the masterpiece Madama Butterfly, produced by the Greek National Opera. This year's festival is dedicated to Maria Callas...

The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to air a groundbreaking event: a live broadcast from Mars! This extraordinary transmission will present fresh images from the Mars Express spacecraft at a rapid rate of one image every 50 seconds. Roughly 187...

A rare ancient Greek coin broke records earlier this month when it was sold for $6 million at an auction in Switzerland. A private collector acquired the 2,400-year-old gold stater, which was minted approximately between 340 and 25 BC. It...

Socrates, the philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy, was found not guilty in a mock trial conducted by the National Hellenic Museum (NHM). Robert A. Clifford and Sarah F. King, partners of Clifford Law...

Kurt Cobain's beloved Fender Stratocaster guitar, which he famously shattered during the making of Nirvana's groundbreaking Nevermind album in the early 1990s, has fetched a staggering $595,900 at an auction. Surpassing initial predictions by more than tenfold, this sale...

A remarkable piece of history, the Hebrew Bible, known as the Codex Sassoon, has made headlines by fetching a staggering $38.1 million at an auction held by Sotheby's. This extraordinary event marks one of the most expensive transactions ever...

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens honored prominent British historian Mark Mazower for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge of post-antique Greece. The ceremony was held during the American School's seventh annual Gala which took place...

On Sunday, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary. Hanks, the famous actor and filmmaker, and Wilson, a popular Hollywood actress, singer, and producer, married in 1988. Wilson is half Greek and Hanks converted to Greek Orthodoxy...

Heads of state, policymakers and business leaders from around the globe will participate in the Delphi Economic Forum that kicks off on Wednesday in the historic town of Delphi. A host of prominent speakers will address a range of issues...

Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a 39 years old Amazon indigenous leader, has been granted this year's Goldman Prize for her dedication to grassroots activism. She fought against the mining company Anglo American to safeguard the Munduruku territory, and her persistent campaign...

On Saturday April 21, the city of Rome celebrated what is believed to be its 2,776th birthday during a traditional celebration called Natale di Roma. The founding of the Eternal City was marked on Saturday with parades of re-enactors dressed...

The National Hellenic Museum and the University of Illinois Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies co-hosted Homerathon: A Reading of Homer's Odyssey. The public reading of all 24 books of the epic poem spanned 13 hours on Friday and Saturday...

President Biden will host the traditional Greek Independence Day reception at the White House on Wednesday. Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will represent the Greek-American community along with hundreds of Greeks and Greek Americans who will attend the event to honor...

On Friday, Greece commemorated the 202nd anniversary of the War of Independence, which would see the country freed after almost 400 years of Ottoman rule, with a grand military parade in the capital, Athens. Thousands of Greeks gathered in Athens...