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Greece thrashed Kazakhstan 5-0 in their Euro 2024 play-off semi-final on Thursday and has one final hurdle to clear on its way to the finals. If Greece beats Georgia in Tbilisi on Tuesday it will qualify to the finals of...

A new type of "ghost shark" has been found by researchers in the deep Andaman Sea near Thailand. This ghost shark is unlike any seen before with a big head, large shiny eyes, and feather-like fins. The newly found creature...

Researchers found five old canoes deep in the Mediterranean Sea. These were used over seven thousand years ago by people living near Rome. Back then, these canoes were used both for fishing and transportation. These discoveries came during ongoing digs...

The war in Ukraine has brought the military balance in Europe between Russia and NATO back to the forefront of geostrategic thinking. After the end of the Cold War and the demise of the USSR, Eastern Europe's geostrategic importance as...

In a shocking move, the US Department of Justice (DOJ), backed by a total of 16 US state district attorneys along with the District of Columbia, filed on Thursday an antitrust lawsuit against tech giant Apple. This unprecedented –for Apple...

A controversial and highly-criticized study which claimed that humans built a pyramid on Gunung Padang, Indonesia around 25,000 years ago has been retracted from the journal Archaeological Prospection after a "major error" was discovered. The Gunung Padang Pyramid Study In November...

A Greek journalist is on trial in an Athens court following a lawsuit by the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which accuses him of fabricating evidence in his attempt to prove that the Holy Fire in Jesus's tomb does not...

Greek folk songs of the 1821 Revolution not only told stories of brave revolutionaries, but also served as historical texts and diffusors of tradition

Greece is expected to finalize a deal for the purchase of 7 fire-fighting aircraft from Canada early next week during the official visit of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Montréal, and Toronto. Canada's PM Justin Trudeau, announced that Mitsotakis, will visit...

The Fat Lady of Saliagos (also known as The Naked Lady of Saliagos) is the oldest known Cycladic sculpture. It is a marble figure from the Aegean Neolithic period discovered on the tiny islet of Saliagos between the Greek islands...

On Wednesday, Greece received three new US-made Romeo MH-60R Seahawk helicopters that will be joining the Hellenic Navy. The ceremony took place at the Kotroni Air Base near Marathon in East Attica, where Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made a brief...

On Wednesday, Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink live streamed its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess and toggling a music stream on and off. Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old man who is paralyzed from the shoulders down due...

On March 21, 1821 the Greek rebels started the siege of Kalavryta, making it the first Greek town that was liberated from the Ottomans, thus declaring the start of the Greek War of Independence.

In Přerov, Czech Republic, archaeologists at the Comenius Museum have discovered a thousand-year-old ice skate made of animal bone. This find came during their rescue dig in the city's Upper Square. The skate, probably crafted from a horse's shinbone, was...

For hundreds of years historians and archaeologists have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an end, but no definitive answer has ever been found. A Bronze Age culture centered on...