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Co-organized by the Greek embassy in China and the Beijing Olympic City Development Association, the exhibition, traces over ...
Ukrainians gathered atop a scenic hill near Kyiv on Saturday evening (June 21) to mark the summer solstice. New IOC President ...
Fire crews battled a large wildfire on Greece’s eastern Aegean island of Chios on Sunday (June 22), as strong winds spread flames and thick smoke through forest and farmland, damaging warehouses, ...
Europe is often called the world’s museum, but the ever-increasing visitors it draws have made it ground zero for concerns ...
ATHENS, Greece — For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theater at the foot of the Acropolis . Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have performed ...
Traveling to Greece? Here are the sites, landmarks, locations, restaurants and bars to see while in Athens, Thessaloniki and ...
Here are 11 of our favourite places in mainland Greece that make for brilliant alternatives to the islands this summer. Part ...
ANCIENT OLYMPIA – New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest repatriation marking ...
Credit: British Museum, uploaded by Arienne King, World History, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Nearly everyone around the world knows the Olympic Games that began in ancient Greece, but who really knows what the ...
In this Aug. 4 X post, for example, a user stated that during the original Olympics held in ancient Greece, women were not allowed to compete in or even attend any events: (@sales_belinda / X) ...
An 1838 illustration of Pindar, the lyric poet from ancient Greece, reciting one of the Olympian odes DEA / ICAS94 via Getty Images At the ancient Olympics in Greece, athletes weren’t the only ...