The Athens Authentic Marathon will return on November 7 and 8 with a record 85,000 runners across six races and a renewed elite field that organizers hope can challenge the course records.
The 43rd edition culminates on Sunday morning with...
Students, university undergraduates and teachers gathered in central Athens on Thursday, November 5, for a nationwide education protest demanding increased government funding, improved school facilities and stronger protections for free public education.
Demonstrators assembled outside the University of Athens at...
British peers have challenged the UK government’s position on the Parthenon Sculptures, with one Labour peer comparing their removal from Greece to the theft of the Crown Jewels.
During a House of Lords debate on November 3, several peers called...
Greece faces a severe demographic crisis as its annual birth rate continues a relentless downward trend. A comprehensive study by prominent demographer Byron Kotzamanis reveals alarming long-term shifts in national reproductive behaviors. Byron Kotzamanis previously directed the Institute of...
Beach pebbles discovered at a 3,500-year-old Minoan-style shrine on the Greek island of Naxos (Greek: Νάξος) have revealed new clues about religious practices and maritime connections in the ancient Aegean. Researchers traced six small volcanic stones to the neighboring...
There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of.
Plateia Amerikis, or America Square, is an iconic square in Athens. The busy square was named in 1927, as the municipal...
The Patriarchal Monastery of Agia Triada Tsagarolon (Holy Trinity), located on the Akrotiri Peninsula fn the island of Crete, was built in the seventeenth century by two brothers, Jeremiah and Lorenzo, who belonged to the old, noble Venetian family...
The Jockey of Artemision, a large Greek bronze sculpture of a young boy riding a horse, is a magnificent surviving statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example of a racehorse in Greek sculpture.
It was discovered in the fall...
Greek honey is selling better than ever abroad, with exports climbing by around 10.5 percent in 2025 to more than $31 million. Officials say, however, that the real challenge now is protecting the product’s origin and making sure more...
Greece's island of Samos, the birthplace of mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras as well as astronomer Aristarchus, has a fascinating history tied to the myth of the Argonauts and the birth of Hera, the queen of the gods.
The first recorded...
Greece has opened a draft national strategy for semiconductors and microelectronics for public consultation, setting out how the country hopes to build a larger role in chip design, research and specialized manufacturing between 2026 and 2030.
The Development Ministry is...
Greece's national weather service has issued an extraordinary bulletin warning of heavy rain and thunderstorms across much of the country on Sunday, November 1, and Monday, November 2, with a chance of heavy hail.
The Hellenic National Meteorological Service, known...
The new muftis of Komotini and Xanthi were sworn in at Greece’s Education Ministry on Friday, completing a selection process that drew competing statements from Athens and Ankara last week.
Bilal Kara Halil took the oath as mufti of Komotini...
A female Eurasian brown bear in a file photo from Slovenia. The image does not show the bear killed in Prespa. Credit: Charles J. Sharp / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo source.
A young female...
