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A headless marble statue of the goddess Athena was discovered in Turkey (video-photos)

The statue of Athena was found among piles of rubble, facing downward, at the outer wall of the stage building of the Western Theater in the ancient city of Laodicea (modern-day Denizli)

Aegina: Ancient jewellery discovered on Kolonna Hill – See photos

They were most likely grave goods from a Middle Bronze Age burial

aaathens.art celebrates its first year of operation

An exclusive dinner and after-party for the Greek art world

A group of teenagers discovered a secret cave with 17,000-year-old prehistoric paintings

The increased presence of visitors began to affect the cave’s microclimate and damage the paintings, leading experts to call for its closure

Stefanos Linaios passed away at the age of 98

The iconic figure of Greek theatre has passed away

Odysseus was worshipped as a god in Ithaca during the Hellenistic period, and the striking revelations from archaeological research

Recent archaeological research at the School of Homer in northern Ithaca has uncovered a monumental complex with the characteristics of a sanctuary and palace directly linked to Odysseus. Inscriptions bearing his name, along with the continuous use of the site from the Mycenaean to the Roman period, confirm that the hero was not only a mythological figure, but a historical person who was also worshipped as a god

The Rise of Sparta (c. 950–6th Century BC)

Prehistoric findings in Sparta – The Dorian migration (11th century BC) – From a small settlement of 2,000 inhabitants in 950 BC to the leading city of Greece – How Sparta expanded

The stomach of an Egyptian mummy concealed a copy of the Iliad – Archaeologists were stunned (photos)

The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary text has been found embedded in a mummy’s body as part of the embalming process

Renoir painting sold at auction for the first time in 97 years

The painting will be presented at Christie's 20th century art auction on 18 May - The estimated price ranges from 25 to 35 million dollars

The controversial Queen Frederica: What she wrote in her diary from the Civil War to the dictatorship

Queen Frederica was one of the most controversial figures in modern Greek history. Even after her death in 1981—unintentionally, of course—she managed to divide the country’s political world

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