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A rare dolphin with thumb-like flippers has been discovered in the Gulf of Corinth in Greece. Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute researchers came across this unique dolphin twice last summer while conducting boat surveys along the Greek coast. Despite its flippers'...

For Chinese that don't have an opportunity to visit Santorini in Greece, there is the Dream Land in Dali, in Southwest China’s Yunnan province that resembles the cosmopolitan Greek island. The resort is built on the side of the Cangshan...

The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell remains one of the most exciting travel books. It is a launching place to learn about history, the islands and the people.

Dimitris Belbas, a Greek tourist in Taiwan, saved 10 hikers from a gorge after the recent earthquake, according to a report in Taiwan News. Belbas was hiking on a trail at the landmark Taroko Gorge with his family when the...

The Aphrodite of Milo, better known as Venus de Milo, is one of the most representative statues of the Hellenistic period of Greek sculpture.

Thousands of Greek Americans and philhellenes celebrated National Independence Day in Boston and Chicago by attending the annual parades on Sunday. The parade in Boston commemorating Greece’s march to freedom which began on March 25th, 1821 began at 1 o’clock just...

The memoir by Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of the key figures of the 2009-2018 Greek debt crisis who died in December 2023, is hitting bookstores in Germany on Monday. The memoir, titled Memories. My Life in Politics, delves into the Greek crisis...

A recent analysis of fossils recovered in the 1990s in the village of Nikiti in northern Greece supports the controversial idea that apes, the ancestors of humans, evolved in Southeastern Europe instead of Africa. The 8 or 9-million-year-old fossils had...

Kostas Sarantidis, the Greek fighter who escaped from the Nazi labor camps to become a national hero in Vietnam, passed away on June 25

The "Romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages as it was translated into thirty languages. The original version was composed in Ancient Greek sometime...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, two ancient Greek inscriptions in the form of rhyming poetry have prompted new insights into the way the language was spoken in those times. Ultimately, it is...

Technology giants, such as Amazon, Google, Digital Realty, and Microsoft have strengthened their presence in Greece in 2023 by investing in data centers, making the country a hub of innovation. Investments in Greece are driven by the strategic geographical position...

The Erechtheion, the ancient Greek temple held up by statues known as Caryatids, was dedicated to the gods Athena and Poseidon; it still stands on the Athens Acropolis, much like the Parthenon just meters away, as a testament to...

The acclaimed Greek television series, Maestro in Blue, returns to Netflix for its second season on May 16th. When Netflix first picked up the series in March 2023, it became the first-ever exclusive worldwide distribution deal for a Greek scripted...

The mass-produced Liberty ships that played a significant role during WWII eventually helped Greece become the world's leading maritime power. Although British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an...