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Several decades ago, when burning wood was the only means of keeping one's home warm, camels were not an uncommon sight in rural Greece.

Greece and Bulgaria opened the natural gas pipeline on Friday following the completion of the construction phase, the project company developing the facility, ICGB, said. The pipeline will supply natural gas originating in Azerbaijan to Bulgaria, whose vital supply of...

The Italian holiday resort of Sorrento, near Naples, has banned bikinis and bare torsos with fines of up to 500 euros ($507) handed out to those who fail to comply with the new rules. The ban forbids people in bikinis...

Climate change is the fastest growing threat to ancient Greek cultural monuments and heritage sites all across the world. Whether the threat is from more frequent wildfires, coastal erosion, flooding, changed rainfall patterns, or impacts of changes in heat and...

Ancient Greek technology got its own museum in Athens, with the opening of the Kostas Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology.

Aradena is an abandoned village in the region of Sfakia on the island of Crete sitting at the edge of a gorge.

Today's placid scenes along the shores of Greece's Pinios River belie its ancient history as the home of hippopotamuses, bison and elephants.

Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has died while hospitalized after he was shot at a political campaign event in the city of Nara on Friday. Abe was shot twice, with the second shot hitting him in the back,...

Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla announced last week that he is donating his $1 million Genesis Prize towards establishing a holocaust museum in Thessaloniki, Greece. Dr. Bourla, 60, said he was donating the entire sum to the museum in his native...

Agustina del Carmen Otero Iglesias, known as "La Belle Otero," was said to be the most beautiful woman of the Belle Epoque—so beautiful, in fact, that men dueled and died over her. The actress, dancer, model, and courtesan was...

The massive golden and ivory statue of Zeus that once stood in the temple to the god located at Ancient Olympia has come back to life after 2,500 years. A replica of the ancient masterpiece has been on display at...

Chinese automaker BYD (Build Your Dreams) has overtaken Elon Musk's Tesla as the leading seller of electric cars. BYD, which is backed by American billionaire investor Warren Buffett, sold a total of 641,350 electric vehicles and hybrids in the first...

Scientists have uncovered more than 900 unknown species of microbes living inside glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau which could spark a wave of new pandemics if released. Analysis of the microbes' genomes revealed that some have the potential to spawn...

A huge skeleton of a Gorgosaurus is up for auction, according to an announcement made by auction house Sotheby's. The Tyrannosaurus rex relative roamed the world around 76 million years ago. The Gorgosaurus skeleton will be the centerpiece of Sotheby's...

The Philhellene Frédéric Boissonnas was the first foreign photographer to set out to travel around Greece to photograph landscapes.