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Google Adds Naxos' Temple of Apollo to its Arts & Culture Platform

The Temple of Apollo on the Cycladic Island of Naxos is the latest addition to the Google Arts & Culture platform and its Open Heritage Gateway, which digitally records important monuments of the world. Google launched the Open Heritage Gateway...

Ancient Trikala Settlement Reveals Amazing Bronze Age Artifacts

The last five years of archaeological research and excavation in central Greece's Petroto village, near the Trikala area, has unearthed a major settlement that dates back to the late Bronze Age. The archaeologists, led by Maria Vaiopoulou, the Karditsa Ephorate of...

Rare Stolen Antiquity Returns to Greece

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports announced that an ancient marble engraved column of Attica style, likely a tombstone, was repatriated to Greece. The object was illegally exported from Greece and it was found at an auction of antiquities...

Marble Slab with Ancient Inscription Discovered in Evia, Greece

A slab of marble with an ancient inscription was confiscated by the Hellenic Police in the area of Vathy in Evia. The object is of great historical value and, subsequently, is of big financial value as well. It was hidden...

Ancient Underwater Ruins Found on Greek Island of Crete

Modern methods of geoinformatics, such as electrical tomography and magnetic mapping, were used by the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities in cooperation with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in an underwater and coastal research carried out from July 21 to 23 and...

Spain: French Couple Caught Looting Ancient Greek and Roman Ruins

Spanish police reported that a French couple was allegedly caught looting ancient coins, brooches and other artifacts from an archaeological site, containing numerous ancient Greek and Roman ruins. The couple was found by police inside a vehicle that was parked...

9th Athens International Tattoo Convention Attracts More than 200 Artists

The Athens International Tattoo Convention sets the pace of the tattoo community in Greece for the 9th year in a row. The convention which lasts three days, May 15 to 17, will take place at Tae Kwon Do Stadium,...