The mosaic depicts the abduction of Persephone by Pluto, a popular theme in tombs around Greece.

Report finds increasing levels of mistreatment by police, chronic overcrowding in prisons and migrant detention centres and a severe staffing shortage of prison guards.

European Union’s executive commission will help Greece after stocks and bonds have been plunging over the week.

Marathon Mayor Ilias Psinakis has suggested his municipality was close to bankruptcy, but Interior Minister Argyris Dinopoulos says municipalities can’t go bankrupt.

Entrepreneurs close to the government were gathering money to bribe MPs into backing the coalition’s candidate for crucial presidential elections early next year.

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos expresses his sympathy to the victims.

This week the stock market fall 6.25 per cent and the yield on 10-year bonds rise to as high as 7.85 per cent.

40 people have been poisoned by wild mushrooms in Greece over the last month.

Any suspicious cases will be reported to the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The mosaic is not fully intact, but does show the god Hermes depicted as the conductor of souls to the afterlife.