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Restoring The Parthenon: Impressive Scenes From The Symbol of Western...
The west side of the Parthenon. Photo by Acropolis Restoration Service, YSMA The restoration of the Parthenon, the global symbol of Western Democracy and civilization as well as Greece’s most famous...
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The Greek Tragedy of Christina Onassis: The Short Life of an Unhappy Heiress
On a warm South American night 30 years ago, on November 19, 1988, Christina Onassis, the golden heiress of the Onassis shipping fortune, died in a friend’s house in Argentina at the age of 38. The...
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Ancient Trikala Settlement Reveals Amazing Bronze Age Artifacts
Photos by Greek Ministry of Culture The last five years of archaeological research and excavation in central Greece’s Petroto village, near the Trikala area, has unearthed a major settlement that dates...
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First Post-War Greek Beauty Queen Dies at 83
Daisy Mavraki, crowned as Greece’s 1952 “Star Hellas” died on Thursday in Athens aged 83. Mavraki, born in Crete, was voted the most beautiful Greek woman in the the first beauty contest held in the...
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Gorgopotamos — Greatest Moment of Greek Resistance to the Nazis
The blowing up of the Gorgopotamos railway bridge on November 25, 1942 still stands as the greatest and most courageous moment of Greek resistance to the German occupation forces of WWII. On September...
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1925 “Morality Police” Tried to Control Length of Women’s Skirts
Policemen measuring the length of women’s skirts As hard as it is to believe today, there once were “Morality Police” in Greece tasked with measuring the length of women’s skirts. Under the guise of...
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December 1st 1913: Crete Unites with Greece (video)
On November 1st, 1913, Sultan Mehmed the 5th resigned from every right of domination over the Great Ocean. Exactly one month later, Crete was officially incorporated into the Greek State. It took...
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Dekemvriana: Ground Zero in the Greek Civil War
December 3, 1944 saw one of the bloodiest and most polarizing incidents in the history of the Greek civil war. Known as “Dekemvriana” (from December, the month it began), the Athens incident has come...
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Byzantine Monuments To Be Protected by New Global Charter
Thessaloniki’s Panagia ton Chalkeon (the Virgin Mary of Chalki) church is from the 11th century. Photo by wikipedia An agreement called “The Charter for the Protection of the Byzantine Heritage...
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Tsipras Says Reparations “Moral Debt To All Peoples of Europe”
Photo by AMNA Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday visited the town of Kalavryta, where the entire population of the town was executed by German occupation troops during WWII. Speaking to the...
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Gyros: The History Behind the Famous Greek Delicacy
Gyros is served wrapped in pitta bread with fries, tomatoes, onions and tzatziki Gyros; one word, an endless variety of taste. Greece’s most popular fast food delicacy, gyros (with the correct...
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Why Greeks Traditionally Decorate a Boat Instead of a Christmas Tree
Naxos Beach. To Karavaki The most traditional symbol you will find in Greece during the holidays is a small boat decorated with lights, usually placed in the main square of a town and close to the...
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Turkish Occupation Continues to Erase Cyprus’ Heritage
Numerous ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine artifacts and monuments are either destroyed or lie neglected in the occupied northern part of Cyprus. Photo by Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs Since the...
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Greek Presidential Guard Established 150 Years Ago Today
A Presidential Guard in front of the Unknown Soldier Monument in Athens. Photo by Wikipedia The long and remarkable history of the Greek Presidential Guard (or Proedrikí Frourá in Greek) started on a...
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Kalavryta: The Bloodiest Nazi Massacre in Greece (video)
December 13, 1943 marks the date of the worst atrocity committed in Greece by the Nazi occupying forces, as more than 500 innocent civilians were executed, and the entire town of Kalavryta was burned...
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Pavlopoulos Speaks Against Nazism at Kalavryta Ceremony
Prokopios Pavlopoulos, the President of Greece, in front of the monument for the Kalavryta victims on Wednesday morning. Photo by AMNA The danger of Nazi atrocities is not over, and European...
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The Dance of Zalongo and the Self-Sacrifice of Greek Women
The Dance of Zalongo is considered to be a monumental act of bravery and defiance against the Ottoman rulers by the women of Epirus, and stands as one of the most colorful pages in Greece’s history. By...
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Ancient Greek Technology Museum Candidate for European Museum of the Year
The museum aims to highlight this relatively under-appreciated aspect of ancient Greek civilization, and to prove that the technology of the ancient Greeks is shockingly similar to modern technology....
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Parthenon Marbles Returning to Greece? UN Supports Greek Resolution
Part of the collection in the British Museum of London Following the discussion of a draft resolution brought to the United Nation’s General Assembly by Greece, the body adopted without a vote a...
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Benaki Museum Hosts Exhibit on Greek Architect Who Built Skopje in 1960’s
Constantinos Doxiadis and his team of architects Constantinos Doxiadis was a Greek architect who played a crucial role in the rebuilding of the city of Skopje in 1963 following a devastating earthquake...
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