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ARCHAEOLOGY
The Nobel Foundation in Sweden has returned to Greece a 3,000-year-old Mycenaean ring that was stolen during World War II before making its way to the other side of the Atlantic, where it was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist.
A prominent philanthropic organization announced on Friday the cancellation of a €4 million grant to the Culture Ministry to protect archaeological findings due to “constant and systematic delays” in the project.
A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring that was stolen from an Aegean island in World War II, crossed the Atlantic, was bought by a Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian scientist and ended up in a Swedish museum has found its way back to Greece.
Celebrating the European Night of Museums on May 14 and International Museum Day on May 18, the Acropolis Museum has put together a program of special events.
Divers are seen conducting research at the wreck of the Mentor, one of the vessels used by Lord Elgin to transport antiquities that he had removed, among other things, from the monuments of the Acropolis.
King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of the Belgium visited the archaeological sites of Sounion and Thorikos on Tuesday, where they were welcomed by Culture Minister Lina Mendoni.
The archaeological site at Ancient Nemea will become the second heritage attraction in Greece to be awarded the EU’s Heritage Label, the Culture Ministry announced on Friday.
Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday.
The exhibition “Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens” is a gift to us all. Housed in the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), the archaeological exhibition is one of high aesthetics, precision, economy and unexpected twists.
The new Archaeological Museum of Hania opened its doors to the public at the weekend. The museum tracks the continuity in western Crete from prehistoric through to historic times.
Traces of the largest known volcanic landslide in the entire Mediterranean, with a volume of up to 125 cubic kilometers, have been discovered in the sea around the island of Santorini by Greek and foreign scientists.
It was sometime between 1900 and 1902 when an ancient Greek shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Antikythera, south of the Peloponnese, and inside it, a mysterious mechanism with intricate inner workings.
Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims through the ages.
New German research reveals that numerous antiquities from German-supervised excavations at the eastern Aegean island of Samos in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ended up in German museums through dubious agreements, according to a report in Deutsche Welle (DW).
As part of the effort to regenerate the historic area of Thermopylae in Central Greece, the Culture Ministry in collaboration with the Municipality of Lamia has commissioned a series of studies to highlight the battlefield itself, including ancient and modern monuments.
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