September 13, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A 62-year-old man was arrested in the northern town of Drama on Wednesday for the illegal hoarding of ancient artifacts in his garden. Police found in the man’s garden fragments of an associated sarcophagus cover, likely dating back to the Roman period, twelve built-in sections of inscribed Muslim sepulchral stele, …
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September 4, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A new system of timed entrance to the archaeological site of the Acropolis went into effect on Monday, September 4, 2023. The system implemented with several months delay aims to protect the monument, avoid crowding and make it easier for visitors to enjoy the experience. The daily limit of visitors …
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August 23, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Five women broke into an excavation site at the Acropolis Museum in Athens and stole coins. The incident took place at 22.45 on Tuesday evening in Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, where five young Greek women -among them two minors- were noticed by a security guard of the Acropolis Museum to have …
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August 18, 2023
Archeology, Culture
Greece’s Culture Ministry is closely following developments at the British Museum after the curator of Greek collections, Greek sculpture and the Hellenistic period was sacked after the disappearance of precious objects. The Ministry is following the developments “very carefully”Minister Lina Mendoni has said describing the incident as “extremely sad and …
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August 7, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Cyclists from Greece, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Italy started their “Bring the Parthenon Marbles back” campaign early Saturday morning, August 5 from the gate of the British Museum in London to Athens. This year’s cycling tour across Europe is part of the “London-Athens on 2 Wheels – …
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August 4, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Visits to the Acropolis of Athens, Greece’s most popular archaeological site, will be capped starting next month, at a maximum 20,000 daily and subject to varying hourly entry limits, the Greek government said Wednesday. Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the controls are needed to prevent bottlenecks and overcrowding at the …
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August 3, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The Water Castle Bourtzi in the middle of the harbor of Nafplio, eastern Peloponnese, will open to the public as an accessible monument of culture and recreation from Saturday, August 5, 2023 the culture Ministry and the Hellenic Public Properties Co, announced on Thursday. Admission will free of charge until …
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August 1, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED, More, Sky
Archaeological sites, museums and other monuments throughout the country will be open on the first night and last night of August for visitors to enjoy the two full moons of August. Admission to the sites will be free of charge on these nights and the Culture Ministry has organized, as …
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July 20, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The Culture Ministry announced on Thursday that operating hours of archaeological sites in Greece are being modified due to the heatwave with temperatures up to 44 degrees Celsius. Visitors will not allow visitors from 12 noon until 05:30 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday, July 20-23, 2023. “In the event of …
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July 19, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
With several weeks delay and at the peak of the tourist seas, Greece’s Culture Ministry finally decided to apply some measures and change the number of daily visitors to the Acropolis of Athens. “The monument cannot withstand more than 20,000 visitors per day,” Minister Lina Mendoni said. Mendoni had a …
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July 18, 2023
Archeology, Culture
The union of guards at archaeological sites has decided to launch a series of work stoppages during the peak hours of the heatwave affecting the country in the next days. The work stoppages will obviously shut down archaeological sites on certain hours during July 20-23, 2023. The Panhellenic Union of …
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July 15, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED, weather
The Culture Ministry announced that the Acropolis of Athens will remain closed to public several hours also on Sunday, July 16, 2023, due to the ongoing heatwave. Last entrance is will be allowed at 11:30 a.m., while the spectacular ancient monument will resume operation again at 5;30 p.m., state-run news …
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July 15, 2023
Archeology, Culture, weather
The Acropolis of Athens, Knossos and other archaeological sites on the island of Crete will be temporarily closed to public for several hours on Saturday, July 15, 2023, as the heatwave that hits Greece reaches its peak with temperatures over 41 degrees Celsius also in the Greek capital. As announced …
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July 14, 2023
Archeology, Culture, weather
The Acropolis of Athens will be closed to public for several hours on Friday, July 14, as the heatwave that hits Greece reaches its peak with temperatures over 41 degrees Celsius also in the Greek capital. Friday morning, a tourist fainted apparently due to the heat, while on the Acropolis …
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July 6, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A marble fragment from the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis will be voluntarily returned to Greece in Lyon by the Prefecture of the Rhone on Thursday. The architectural fragment, dated to the 5th century BC, is originally from the upper architectural section of the Erechtheion (Temple of Athena Polias), the …
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July 6, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Hundreds of tourists are standing forming queues of more than 150 meters in order to visit the Acropolis of Athens. The phenomenon is not new in July since the crowds of people and the long waiting hours were reported since May.It is still surprising, though, that no solution has been …
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June 16, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Several ancient Greek artifacts were found hidden in a forested area of Mount Parnitha in northern Athens on Thursday, June 15. The antiquities were taken by a team of police officers to the Department of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities of the Attica Security Directorate to be examined by an archaeologist …
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June 8, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Archaeologists excavating a hilltop sanctuary on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos have discovered “countless” pottery offerings left by ancient worshippers over the centuries, Greece’s Culture Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry statement said the finds from work this year included more than 2,000 intact or almost complete clay figurines, mostly …
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May 31, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A remarkable number of large cutting tools from the Paleolithic Period were identified and handed over to the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos by retired doctor and researcher Vassilis Koumarelas. Koumarelas handed over to authorities chisels, cutters, trihedrals, scrapers, pickaxes, blades, flakes, cores and products of their division, which he …
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May 26, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Thousands of tourists “besiege” the Acropolis of Athens on daily basis even though the high season for tourism is not at its peak – yet. Thousands of tourists rush to admire the archaeological magnificence of the Acropolis under unimaginable suffering: The dangers for themselves, for the monument and the works …
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