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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September 7, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
More than 300,000 archaeological artifacts were discovered during the construction of the Thessaloniki metro system, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said at a press conference on Wednesday. Many of them will be exhibited at several metro stations, turning them also to museums. She added that a large selection of these artifacts …
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February 24, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Fifty-five archaeological artifacts of high artistic, historical and symbolic value were handed over to Culture Minister Lina Mendoni in a special ceremony held in the USA on Wednesday. It was the Attorney General of Manhattan Alvin Bragg who handed over the artifacts. Among them were 47 antiquities from the M. …
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December 9, 2021
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Forty-seven illegally trafficked Greek artifacts among the dozens surrendered by American hedge-fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt under a deal with US authorities will be returned to Greece in the coming days, the Culture Ministry announced on Thursday. The ancient items that will be returned originated from Central Greece, Crete, the Cyclades …
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July 10, 2019
Archeology
Unique and rare ancient Greek artifacts are to be exhibited on two islands of the Cyclades group and shown to the public for the first time. The Cyclades Ephorate of Antiquities open the exhibitions on the islands of Tinos and Koufonisia in the middle of July 2019. Exhibitions Tinos, Pyrgos: …
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October 5, 2017
Archeology, Culture
A treasury of incredibly rare artifacts, pieces of bronze and marble statues and a mysterious have been found in the famous shipwreck of Antikythera Mechanism and recovered by archaeologists and divers. Most spectacularly, it is suggested that a total of seven bronze statues are still waiting to be recovered form …
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July 19, 2017
Very Mix
Greek police is in search of an African woman suspected to have sprayed tombstones at the Museum of Royal Tombs of Aigai in Vergina, Macedonia. According to newspaper To Vima, the incident took place beginning of May. Now everybody is wondering why authorities informed the press two months later. The …
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November 24, 2012
Culture, Very Mix
Greek police released pictures and video footage of the recovered artifacts stolen from the Museum of Ancient Olympia, after three Greeks were arrested on Friday for the armed robbery in February 2012. The bronze and terracotta statuettes, vases and lamps, which date from the Geometric to the Classical era, all found and …
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November 24, 2012
Culture, Very Mix
Greek police arrested three Greeks responsible for the robbery of dozens of priceless ancient artifacts stolen from the Olympia Museum in February 2012. The police caught the gang leader in a Patras hotel, while he was waiting for a “customer” (police officer) to whom he was planning to sell a golden ring …
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