These trains make multiple stops in and around Athens. Line 1 operates between Piraeus and the northern suburb of Kifisia and offers the closest stop (Monastiraki metro station) to Ancient Agora ...

Athens has been continuously inhabited since the mid-late Neolithic era, around 3000 BCE ... of remnants of the city’s fifth-century BCE walls, which once enveloped the Acropolis, the Agora ...

Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...

Graphic: Shruti Naithani/ThePrint Athens faced some of the harshest austerity measures in return for at least three internationally funded bailouts worth around ... the ports of Piraeus and ...

An engineer uses ground-penetrating radar to detect the walls of the original tomb behind its marble facade. Photograph courtesy Jerusalem Patriarchate, National Technical University of Athens ...

Passengers never know before boarding who their on-board chef instructor will be, but there’s every chance they’ll find someone as fascinating as we did.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life ...

Piraeus Bank is engaged in a “marathon” of correspondence and Q&As with the Competition Commission regarding the matter of Ethniki Asfalistiki. The bank’s assessment remains the same: the completion ...

The wall divided Kerameikos into inner and outer sections. It was then that the outer area began to be used as a cemetery for soldiers who died in battle. Work began for the construction of a road ...

Donald Trump warned Vladimir Putin is “playing with fire” after deadly strikes in Ukraine. Trump said “really bad things” would’ve hit Russia already if not for his past leadership. He ...

Order a pizza Yes, there are the national chains that line Baxter Street, but for something unique to Athens, order a pizza from DePalma’s, which has three locations around town. For a late ...

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