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The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark moment for Greece

German scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann admired ancient Greek art, and his book in 1764 laid the foundations of the art history discipline. Winckelmann (1717-1768) is...

Ancient Greeks had a lot of respect for the mother and honored her accordingly as the life-giver, centuries before Mother's Day was celebrated

The word cancer comes from the late fifth and early fourth century BC, when doctors were using the word karkinos, the ancient Greek word...

The celebration of Saint George on May 6th is one of the most important feasts in Greece and at Arachova in particular where the...

The picture of a whole lamb slowly turning on the spit over charcoal and the smell that accompanies it spells Easter Sunday for Greeks.

Greeks have been cracking red eggs at Easter for centuries. The tradition, although it is also a fun game, is steeped in religious symbolism.

The Illyrians can be traced back to the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, starting as a collection of tribes that were a...

Greeks work long hours but their pay is low compared with their EU counterparts, recently released statistics by Eurostat reveal. In 2023, 7.1 percent of...

Holy Friday, or Good Friday, is a profoundly mournful day in Greece which commemorates the Passion of Christ with the traditional Epitaphios processions. A nationwide...