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Fifteen years after the release of the original, the producer of the original Mamma Mia! movie confirmed recently that despite delays, a third installment is well on the way. The first movie, which was shot in Greece on Skopelos, Skiathos,...

A Greek peanut vendor who set shop outside the White House became famous in the US in the first half of the 20th century. Nicholas Stefanos “Steve” Vasilakes emigrated from Ligerea, Laconia, Greece, to the United States in 1910 and...

A petition launched in Greece to lift the immunity of politicians from prosecution following last year's Tempe rail disaster has gathered more than 1.2 million signatures. The petition was initiated by Maria Karystianou, the mother of Marthi, a 20-year-old girl...

Craco, a ghost town in Italy, located in the province of Matera about twenty-five miles inland from the Gulf of Taranto, was once inhabited by Greeks. The medieval village of Craco in Magna Graecia is typical of the hill towns of...

The former leper colony of Spinalonga just off the coast of Crete is being restored to create exhibition spaces, the Greek Culture Ministry announced recently. The restoration of the buildings of the Leprosy Hospital is part of the ministry’s promotion...

The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted 13-79 against a resolution that would have blocked a $23 billion F-16 sale to Turkey that the Biden administration approved last month. Turkey has sought to lock down the sale, which includes 40 new...

The Amber Road was an ancient route linking northern Europe to the Mediterranean through which amber often referred to as "northern gold" was traded from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. Amber deposits are still present under the Baltic Sea,...

A sensational science story which gripped the world last year claimed that the Gunung Padang site in West Java, Indonesia is the world's oldest pyramid and could be more than 25,000 years old, but is there any truth in...

The Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio in East Attica, will be getting a new lighting system with the aim of showcasing the monument's size and design more clearly, the Culture Ministry announced. New lighting for the Temple of Poseidon The...

Aliki Vougiouklaki and Dimitris Papamichael, two giants of Greek cinema during its 'golden age', who were also married for a time, have been immortalized as wax figures in the popular Wax Museum of Theodoros Kokkinidis in Kavala. Vougiouklaki and Papamichael's...

A colossal statue of the sky-bearing Greek titan Atlas, which was buried for hundreds of years among ancient ruins, has been reconstructed to claim its rightful place at the Temple of Zeus in Agrigento, Sicily after a twenty-year-long research...

A trademark of Cretan cuisine, dakos, topped the list of the world's best salads according to ratings compiled by TasteAtlas recently. Dakos has many variations but only one secret: the superior-quality ingredients of the Cretan land. It consists of a slice...

Greece is home to countless traditional Greek dances, many of which have direct connections to ancient Greek forms of rhythmic movement. In ancient Greece, dance was an integral part of many aspects of cultural and religious events as well as...

On Thursday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin warned of a nuclear war if Western powers send ground troops to Ukraine. Addressing parliament and other members of the country's elite during the annual State of the Nation address, Putin repeated his accusation...

The mystery of the Minoan Phaistos Disc has been "solved by 99 percent" says linguist and archaeologist Gareth Owens.