A new show at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture in the central Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki brings together two young photographers in a joint exhibition titled “Ethos: Another Side of Greece.”
Sofia Pavlaki’s excitement when she talks about Greek Toys would shoot off the chart if we journalists had such a thing to measure interview subjects’ enthusiasm about their respective fields.
The northern Cycladic island of Kea (Tzia) recently paid tribute to American archaeologist Miriam Caskey for her contribution to the excavation of Aghia Irini, a key stopping point on trade routes across the Aegean Sea during the Bronze Age.
A Greek resort was named the World’s Leading Eco-Lodge at the World Travel Awards Grand Final in Lisbon last week.
The American Film Institute has ranked weird wave Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos's “The Favorite” in fifth place among its Top 10 movies for 2018, after the period comedy drama was nominated for five Golden Globes.
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has vowed to assert its right to keep an important Greek statue after Italy's highest court rejected its appeal of a ruling ordering the artwork returned to Italy.
The Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany, is dedicating a major exhibition to the Bronze Age civilization of the Mycenaeans.
Greece’s Navagio beach, located on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, has topped the 2018 list of the world's best beaches, compiled by online travel publication Flightnetwork.com.
A new show at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture in the central Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki brings together two young photographers in a joint exhibition titled “Ethos: Another Side of Greece.”
The bitter truth is that it often takes a natural disaster to appreciate our history. The recent earthquake on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, for example, drew attention to the fortress-like Monastery of Strofades, which sustained significant damage in the 6.4-Richter quake.
A 1,500-year-old mosaic depicting St Mark has joined other repatriated pieces that were looted from Cyprus, a Cypriot Orthodox Church official said on Wednesday.
Students from Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University on Monday issued a fresh appeal for the protection of its property and an end to criminal activities on its premises in a letter addressed to the government, the Education Ministry and the Hellenic Police. "Drug trafficking and its consequences... have led to such a state of affairs that cannot be improved without the systematic assistance of police," they said. "The damage wreaked on the 10th anniversary of the murder of [teenager] Alexandros Grigoropoulos [on December 6] has again shown how exposed and defenseless the university is to criminal acts." [Thestival.gr]