May 26, 2024
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A rare gold coin from 4. century BC and the torso of a kouros are among the ancient items confiscated by police. Three people have been arrested in Megara, Pefki and Oinofyta, western Attica. The coin is a Stater of Ptolemy I of Egypt with a diameter of 18 millimeters, …
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January 23, 2024
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Atlanta-based Emory University is repatriating three antiquities to Greece. The antiquities were believed to have been looted from three different geographical areas of the country – Crete, Epirus and Attica – and illegally exported abroad, the Greek culture Ministry said in a statement. The …
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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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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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April 19, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Greek police has arrested seven people on the island of Crete for being members of an antiquities theft ring and seized ancient objects of estimated worth over one million euros. Among the objects the gang was planning to sell to an Italian national are seven stone coffins and vases from …
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March 22, 2023
Archeology, Culture
Twenty-nine Greek antiquities, products of looting and smuggling from Macedonia, Epirus, Central Greece, the Cyclades and Crete, were handed over by the Manhattan Prosecutor’s office in USA to Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. The antiquities ended up in the USA, through the criminal networks of illegal trafficking of cultural goods. …
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November 11, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Salvage excavations at the Theater Square – Plateia Theatrou- in downtown Athens have revealed Late Roman antiquities, the Greek Ministry of Culture said on Thursday. Salvage work in the area started on October 7, 2022. In works ahead of the area’s makeover, which lies southwest of the Athens City Hall, …
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September 28, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
More antiquities have been unearthed during the construction works of the metro in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The finding span from the Proto-Byzantine to the Middle-Byzantine era, that is from from the 4th to 11th centuries AD. According to local media, the antiquities were discovered during works at the southern access …
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September 21, 2021
Archeology, Very Mix
Two US nationals were arrested at Athens’ international airport on Monday after fragments of ancient vessels and other objects were discovered in their luggage. The Oklahoma-born couple, both aged 64, had been traveling to Greece with their 32-year-old son and were heading to Istanbul to continue their holiday. During a …
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June 30, 2021
Archeology, Culture
Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State (CoS), has given the green light for the temporary removal and repositioning of the antiquities unearthed during excavation work for the Thessaloniki metro in northern Greece. With the majority of a single vote (13-12) the judges of the CoS approved the removal …
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February 22, 2021
Uncategorized
The casts of three antique marbles reliefs returned to the archeological museum of Thassos a few days ago. They were displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris since they were found during excavations in the so-called Passage of Theories in the second half of 19th century. Director of the Ephorate …
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December 14, 2020
Archeology, Culture
The International Council on Monuments and Sites, a technical advisor to UNESCO is calling for the Protection of the Antiquities in situ at the Venizelos Metro station in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The resolution comes following the decision of local authorities and the Greek Central Archeological Council to remove the antiquities …
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December 9, 2020
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Greece’s Culture Ministry has submitted an amendment stipulating the export of museum collections including antiquities and even “an entire monument” to museums or “similar places” abroad for a period of up to 50 years. According to the amendment, the collections can be lent for 25 years that can be renewed …
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September 10, 2019
Archeology, Culture
The announcement by Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to remove the antiquities from the ancient archaeological site from the metro station <Venizelos>in Thessaloniki so that the metro works proceed in fast speed has triggered a storm of reactions in the second biggest city of Greece. Citizens have launched a petition to …
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October 15, 2018
Archeology
An Ancient Greek Amphora is to go on auction in New York at the end of the month. Too bad that the ownership is currently disputed by Greek forensic archaeologists who have alerted authorities to investigate the issue. The black-figured amphora may end back to Greece, local media report. The …
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September 5, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Greek authorities have arrested an antiquities smuggler who was about to sell a 2,000-year-old marble statue of ancient goddess of love Aphrodite and other antiquities stolen from the Museum of Santorini island. Police arrested the 43-year-old Greek in the seaside town of Loutraki in the Gulf of Corinth on Tuesday …
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May 28, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Police has arrested a night watchman at the archaeological museum of Santorini for stealing antiquities. Together with an accomplice, the watchman has been stealing antiquities from the Museum’s storage room for about one year. In a cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, police raided the man’s home on Saturday and …
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January 7, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Greece’s Ministry of Culture is in contact with the prosecutor’s office in Manhattan, after New York authorities seized several antiquities from the private collection of billionaire Michael Steinhardt on Friday. General Secretary of the Greek Culture and Sports Ministry, Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki said on Sunday “the Ministry is in contact with …
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January 6, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Investigators raided the office and the Manhattan home of the billionaire Michael H. Steinhardt on Friday afternoon, carrying off several ancient works, Prosecutors say the antiquities were looted from Greece and Italy. Mr. Steinhardt, a hedge-fund manager and philanthropist, has been collecting art from ancient Greece for three decades and …
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August 25, 2017
Archeology
Six Greeks and two German were arrested in the last two days for illegally fishing antiquities in the Greek waters. The Greeks aged 34-50 were arrested in Gytheio in south-east Mani in Peloponnese on Monday afternoon. The men were diving to a roman shipwreck in Limani area. They were arrested …
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