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A medieval history journal has published a new study claiming that a huge, 180-foot (55 meter) chalk figure etched on a hillside near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England is in fact the ancient Greek demigod Hercules. Cerne...

Kevin Spacey performed William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, a play with a powerful message about cancel culture that prevails in the modern world. In his first appearance on stage since being acquitted of sexual assault charges in London in July,...

Over one hundred Minoan finds which have never left Crete and Greece before will launch at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on February 10.

British Professor Peter Mackridge was granted honorary Greek citizenship during a ceremony in London earlier in the week for his services to Greek studies. Mackridge, Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford from 1996 until his early retirement...

Survivors of Covid-19, even those who had just mild cases of the virus, can lose gray matter in their brains equivalent to ten years of aging, a new study says. The study, which was published on Monday in the journal...

AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it has suspended trials of the coronavirus vaccine that it is developing with the University of Oxford after one of the trials' volunteers fell ill with an unexplained illness. The AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine is seen as...

The Greek civil service has always been the butt of many jokes by the country’s citizens. It’s renowned ineffectiveness often brings misery and frustration to millions of Greeks. This time it has been properly assessed and ranked along other developed...

It is no secret that conspiracy theories and the creation of urban legends are very common for people in Greece. In fact, they have a tendency to find lies and distortions behind a lot of significant personalities and stories. A survey...

The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand and the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney have organized a conference  -"Crisis, Criticism and Critique in Contemporary Greek studies." The profound impact of the crisis on...