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Benaki Museum is launching an online benefit auction of works of art on November 30 until December 14, it said on Thursday. The auction will be held for the museum’s financial support, as most of Greece’s museums and cultural organizations are facing a funding shortfall in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The works of […]
Maria Moscholiou, who became famous for playing the role of High Priestess during several Olympic flame lighting ceremonies, has died, reports said Wednesday. Moscholiou, who studied drama at the Greek National Theater, performed the role for four consecutive summer Games: Mexico 1968, Munich 1972, Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980 “Creating the Olympic Light is an […]
A municipality of Athens crew carrying out roadworks in Aiolou street in downtown Athens οn Friday revealed a head of Hermes, part of a Herma column. The Culture Ministry in an announcement said that the find is in a good condition and has been transferred to an Antiquities Ephorate warehouse.It is an original sculpture, probably […]
The 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution provides local governments the opportunity to propose projects that answer local needs and serve them for the long term, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, during a meeting with the “Greece 2021” organizing committee and 114 mayors. At the teleconference meeting, the premier said all proposals to […]
“I feel this year’s findings have been a vindication for [Yannis A.] Sakellarakis. He always claimed – and I did not believe it at the time – that the excavations at Zominthos were very important. He would say, ‘I feel just like [Arthur] Evans when he excavated Knossos,’” the director of the dig, Dr Efi […]
