Acropolis of Athens

A lone tourist was among the first to enter the archaeological site on the Acropolis on Monday, as authorities opened up more than 200 archaeological sites in Greece which had remained closed for almost two months due to the...

Greece’s Council of State issued two rulings that temporarily suspend the construction of buildings in central Athens that would obstruct the view of Acropolis Hill, local media report. According to Kathimerini, the court first rejected appeals to revoke a decision...

Greece has recently begun a major facelift on the Acropolis, the primary tourist site in Greece, by installing visitor lifts, lighting on the hill and removing unnecessary parts of the scaffolding obscuring the Parthenon from public view. On Tuesday, Culture...

The Greek flag on the Acropolis is flying at half staff on Wednesday as a mark of respect for the day WWII resistance hero and politician Manolis Glezos is to be laid to rest in Athens. Glezos, who died on...

A recent scientific study published in the Academic journal Antiquity claims that the first decades of the Parthenon sculptures' presence in London caused irreparable damage, much worse than what Athens' air pollution would have caused to the ancient artifacts in the...

Presidents of all Bar Associations of Greece formed recently a National Committee to reclaim the Parthenon Sculptures, the Athens Bar Association said in an official statement on Friday. Their aim is to assist the country's efforts to repatriate the priceless...

The Athens Acropolis is to be lit up in blue - the official color of UNICEF - on Wednesday night to mark the 30th anniversary since the signature of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child...

During the third -- and last -- day of his official visit to Greece, Xi Jinping, the President of the People's Republic of China visited the Acropolis Museum in Athens. There, at this state-of-the-art museum, in front of the caryatids,...

The Council of State, Greece's Supreme Administrative Court, announced on Friday that it is canceling the approval of a building permit for the construction of a nine-story hotel with a three-level basement and a roof near the Acropolis. The issue...

Antonis Papadimitriou, the President of the Onassis Foundation, met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion on Wednesday morning in Athens. It was made public following their meeting that the Foundation will fund the construction of a new,...