For years, the British Museum has claimed that there was an Ottoman ferman (edict) that allowed Lord Elgin to plunder the Acropolis and remove the Parthenon sculptures from the monument. …

Yorgos Lanthimos’ period drama “The Favourite” won only one Academy Award from its 10 nominations. The award went to Olivia Colman for Best Actress, however failed to win awards for Best …

Mount Athos (Agion Oros), the oldest surviving monastic community in the world, dates back more than a thousand years to the Byzantine era and is steeped in tradition. Perhaps it …

Chilling new research has found that you know when you are dead – and you are likely to know what is happening around you. The study by researchers led by Dr …

On March 8, 1857, the women workers in the New York Textiles and Tailors industry went on strike and demonstrations. They called for a reduction in working hours and a wage …

The Prespes Agreement may expressly leave no room for raising the existence of a “Macedonian minority” of North Macedonia origin living in Greece, however it is open for interpretation for …

Athens is defined by a hotchpotch of layers as periods of the city’s history straddle over previous ones, merging in a convoluted way to present the modern-day capital’s present identity. …

Melbourne’s Bourke Street killer James Gargasoulas, 29, has received a life sentence for committing one of Australia’s “worst examples of mass murder”. Gargasoulas sat emotionless as he heard his sentence …

Here are five headlines that appeared on Tuesday 12 February: Neos Kosmos: ‘FYROM changes its name on signage – and celebrates’ Proto Thema: ‘FYROM signs taken down from government buildings’ …

Heroin dealer Zoe Giannioudis, 31, fatally stabbed one of her customers, Simon Cartwright, 38, in the chest in broad daylight after an ongoing feud. The two had a history of …