In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated.
In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated.
An anonymous tip led to the arrest of a 44-year-old antiquities smuggler in Vatondas on the island of Evia on Monday for attempting to sell 38 Hellenistic-era silver coins.
A central issue in Greek politics for decades has been that politicians view everything as a zero-sum game. In colloquial terms, they believe that the political death of their opponent equates to their own survival.
A network of thousands of underground spaces are scattered beneath Athens. Pedestrians hurry past them, not suspecting that the metal lid of a manhole they have just stepped on is one of the gates to a vast web of spaces, which for decades has been sealed in silence and oblivion.
The Church of Agios Nikolaos and the residential area of Neapoli in Athens in 1918. With rare photographic material and contemporary artistic creations, a major exhibition of the Hellenic American Union which opens on Tuesday evening seeks to reintroduce Neapoli.
Is Greece’s transition to democracy, a historical process known as the “Metapolitefsi,” complete? What are the legacies and hangups left behind, 50 years after the collapse of the military dictatorship?
To begin with the word itself: Let us remember that the first “Metapolitefsi” (the restoration of democracy) had already taken place before the Junta’s fall, in 1973.
One of the areas where Greece made some of its greatest strides during the past 50 years has been in foreign policy, the second day of the “50 Years of the Metapolitefsi” conference heard on Friday.
A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – got underway on Thursday at the National Gallery in Athens.
A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy – a period known as the Metapolitefsi – will get underway on Thursday at the National Gallery in Athens.
“Alexander the Great: The Making of a God” is the title of a new docudrama on the Netflix platform, which raised a storm of reactions, with the Greek minister of culture, Lina Mendoni, labeling it “of poor content and low quality.”
General Ioannis Metaxas’ regime (1936-41) built some 400 bomb shelters in Athens, while it imposed by law the creation of a shelter in every new building, raising the number to 5,500 from 1936 to 1940, author and researcher Konstantinos Kyrimis, who has been recording them for over a decade, tells Kathimerini, citing an official Hellenic Army report.
Last December, a week before I left Greece for an extended trip to the United States, I launched a petition, the first ever I had attempted. It is titled “Nostos for Greek Adoptees.”
Curious minds are invited to a unique Sunday stroll through time in the First Cemetery of Athens (3 Logginou) on February 18 at 12:30 p.m.
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.
The memorial prayer (Askava) and the laying of wreaths at the annual event commemorating the National Day of Remembrance of the Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust on January 28 was among the last to be held on the pavement of Nikis Avenue, in central Thessaloniki. Eleftherias Square will […]