A Netflix series about Alexander the Great is “fiction of extremely poor quality, lowly content and full of historical inaccuracies,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said on Wednesday.
CULTURE
Turkish authorities are reportedly moving ahead with the conversion of another Byzantine Greek Orthodox church into a mosque.
Revenue from visits to the Acropolis went up by €14 million from the previous year’s €46 million, the culture minister said on Monday.
The Culture Ministry has completed its acquisition from the National Bank of an iconic cultural venue at a former industrial complex on Pireos Street near central Athens.
Two antiquity fragments that were taken out of Greece illegally were repatriated from the Swiss capital Bern on January 23, the Culture Ministry said on Thursday.
The painter Konstantinos Kerestetzis presents watercolors that he created during his stay on Mount Athos, the fruit of a deep relationship he has cultivated with the historic monastic community.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni received three ancient Greek artifacts for repatriation at Emory University’s Michael Carlos Museum in Atlanta, US on Monday.
The famous angels of Kurbinovo, a small village on the shore of the Great Prespa Lake in North Macedonia, have got their colorful robes, expressive faces and fluttering wings back, after the wear and tear of time had dulled the luster of what is regarded as one of the greatest murals of the Komnenian era (AD 1081-1204).
Even as the group of flower aficionados flitted around a high-ceilinged room admiring just-clipped camellias with fanciful names like “Pink Lassie” and “Paradise Petite,” single petals floated lazily to the paneled wood floor, forming colorful mounds.
Archaeological site guards walked off the job for four hours until noon on Tuesday to express their opposition to government plans to outsource ticketing for the Acropolis.
The partly restored Palace of Aigai, in northern Greece, was much more than the palace where Philip II of Macedon resided and where his son, Alexander, was proclaimed king in 336 BC before embarking on his now legendary conquests.
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation has collaborated with major European museums to present, for the first time in Greece, a comprehensive tribute to the Neo-Impressionist art movement, with a focus on the Mediterranean region.
It was the largest building of classical Greece: the palace where Alexander the Great was proclaimed king before he launched a conquest that took him as far as modern-day Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized the global significance of the recently restored Palace of Aigai in northern Greece, declaring it a heritage for the entire world.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asserted that his conservative government is dedicated to improving the living standards of the people and expressed optimism for the new year during his visit to the town of Meliki in central Macedonia on Friday. Marking his first visit outside Athens for 2024, Mitsotakis is scheduled to inaugurate the recently restored Palace of Aigai later in the day.
Police located and seized 56 old church icons and arrested a 43-year-old man and a 74-year-old woman, accused of violating legislation for the protection of antiquities and cultural heritage.
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