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The historic Greek warship, Velos, which now operates as a floating museum, was damaged by the gale force winds while docked at the port of Thessaloniki over the weekend. Velos sustained damage to its stern and was taken to the...

A US report published last week criticizes Turkey for not doing enough to prevent threats to non-Muslim religious sites in the country. The report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) maintains that while the number and...

The modern Greek Argonauts are the Diaspora, following the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. By Steve Bakalis In antiquity, many Greeks migrated to new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander the Great’s wake. The...

Relations between Greece and Turkey can improve and certain differences can be settled through dialogue, without third-party interference, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Speaking at a press briefing on the flight back home from a visit to Berlin, Erdogan...

A new exhibition on Byzantium's influence in Africa opens at the Metropolitan Museum of New York on Sunday, November 19. On view through March 3, 2024, Africa & Byzantium will shed light on an underrepresented area of art history and...

Home prices in Athens are surging making the Greek capital one of Europe’s hottest housing markets, Bloomberg reports. Home prices in the Greek capital climbed 12.2 percent in October, nearly triple the gains in Stockholm and bucking declines in cities...

Thousands marched on the streets of Athens toward the US Embassy on Friday to commemorate the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising and the victims of the deadly 1973 crackdown by the police and the army of a student uprising...

Modern stoics on TikTok diverge quite a bit from what the ancient philosophers of Stoicism espoused. Their ideas around happiness and productivity are not the same as modern influencers think they are. By Matthew Duncombe I don’t know about you, but...

A lion mosaic was unearthed in the ancient city of Konuralp, north-western Turkey, the place where a bust of Alexander the Great was found in September. The lion mosaic was discovered during excavations in a room located at the top...

The Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) is close to selling a surveillance drone to the Greek Ministry of Defense, according to Defense News. This achievement comes a year after introducing the Archytas, specifically designed for reconnaissance and surveillance missions. The company's...