A copy of the Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Heniokhos, was unveiled on Tuesday at the metro station of Qatar’s Hamad International Airport by Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. The replica was donated by Greece to Qatar.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Summer hours for archaeological sites and museums will kick in later in April this year, from the traditional April 1 date, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Culture announced on Friday.
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The fragments of the Parthenon sculptures that are exhibited in the British Museum have made headlines again, after an interview with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which he expressed his objection to the sculptures’ repatriation.
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A group of people wearing protective face masks walk in front of the Parthenon temple in Athens, after archaeological sites opened across Greece on Monday, following the partial easing of coronavirus measures.
A man wearing a protective face mask exits the Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis hill, after archaeological sites open across Greece, following the easing of measures against the coronavirus disease, in Athens. [Louiza Vradi/Reuters]
Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni welcomed on Saturday a resolution introduced by the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues calling on the United Kingdom to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
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Drone footage released last April of mass graves being dug for thousands of victims of the novel coronavirus in New York shocked the world, but the area of Hart Island, east of the Bronx, has been used as a burial site since 1869 for the unclaimed and the indigent, as well as in the early 1980s for some of the earliest victims of AIDS and in 2008 during an influenza epidemic in the American metropolis.
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The Culture Ministry on Friday announced the discovery of a small bronze bull statue in the Olympia Archaeological Site during an inspection by ministry staff and the Ilia Ephorate of Antiquities. According to the statement, the bull was spotted by archaeologist Zaharoula Leventouri who spotted one of its horns protruding from the ground, following heavy […]
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens continues its Greek Painting in Context webinar series with a lecture by Jenifer Neils on the Gigantomachy.
The Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments has rebuffed criticism of a decision to lay a concrete path on the Sacred Rock to facilitate access to the Parthenon.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Friday challenged claims made by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the so-called Elgin Marbles, saying that there is evidence to show how the Parthenon sculptures were removed from the Acropolis illegally.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dismissed Greece’s call for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to the country, arguing that the 2,500-year-old cultural treasures are “legally owned by the British Museum’s Trustees.”
A photo released on Saturday shows a late first century AD carriage and horse skeletons unearthed in 2002 in a burial mound in Thrace, northeastern Greece.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens will hold a special webinar on Monday at 8 p.m. on “Women in Greek Archaeology.”
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Five of Greece’s largest museums – the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the archaeological museums in Thessaloniki and Iraklio, the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens and the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki – will become independent entities.
Archaeologist Angelos Zarkadas began investigating the secretive repatriation of a looted ancient statue after reading about the case in an old Kathimerini report.
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