Acropolis of Athens

Greek archaeologists appealed to Europeans to help defend the nation’s cultural heritage and history amid cuts in the budget to maintain sites that include those around the 2,500 year-old Acropolis in Athens. “The same austerity packages and authoritarian measures that...

Greek communist party members hung banners in Greek and English denouncing EU policies under the temple of Parthenon at Athens' Acropolis Rock on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Fifty members entered the archaeological site and hung banners at the northeast side...

A Virtual Theatre in the new Acropolis Museum has been created in order to present films and documentaries with 3D animation regarding the history of restorations of the four monuments of the Acropolis. The screening of the film 'Acropolis in...

ATHENS – The Acropolis might not be for sale, but it is for rent. Desperate for cash and looking at every possible option, except going after tax evaders, Greece is now offering what was once a taboo site –...

Greek conservative New Democracy MP and former deputy health minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos suggested on Monday that the Acropolis and other archaeological sites be leased to private firms in a bid to bring much-needed revenue into the debt-ridden country, as...

Hundreds of tourists were blocked from visiting the Acropolis on Christmas Eve after the site's guards called a strike to demand overdue weekend pay. Visitors had to resort to taking photos of themselves outside the monument's shuttered gates on Saturday,...

ATHENS- Christmas this year for many Greeks is no reason to celebrate as they come to the end of a four year of recession and an economic crisis with 17.5 percent unemployment, 500,000 people with no income at all,...

An online strategy game allows players to destroy historical monuments of  countries between them and the Acropolis. This is the eRepublik, in which the player chooses a country and begins to expand its sovereignty and conquer neighboring countries by building...

The weekly German newsmagazine 'Focus' published a new an article against Greece. In this edition of Focus has been added a covershot of the Acropolis sinking. In a previous edition of Focus, when the Greek economic crisis broke out,...

Australian MP’s of Greek Heritage met in Perth last week, as part of the annual meeting of the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association (WHIA-Oceania Region). Their purpose was to raise awareness concerning the rightful ownership of the Parthenon marbles –kept...