Accidental archaeological discoveries are relatively common in Greece, a country renowned for its ancient heritage, and often made during building construction or public works. In December ...

The practice of publicly displaying herms came to an end when early Christians bludgeoned most of Greece’s pagan symbols. The destruction included vases, herms, statuary and temples and lasted for ...

Charon obol. Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, with Ephesus, an ancient city in Ionia (Aegean coast of Turkey) having a particular claim to the ...

With a title like “Murderess,” there can be little surprise where Greece’s submission to the Oscar international feature category is headed. The third adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis’s ...

With a title like “Murderess,” there can be little surprise where Greece’s submission to the Oscar international feature category is headed. The third adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

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“This piece is an ode to the Mediterranean’s easy-going lifestyle and captures the charm of Ancient Greece,” says Wieser. The studio’s collection of curvy Greek vases (from € ...

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