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An ancient monument dsicovered in Eastern France has caused curiosity with not just one but three connected ancient circular structures. The French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) describes the find in Marliens near Dijon as "unprecedented." Digging up...

Greece's Supreme Court has published the final list of parties that will compete in June's European elections with the roster excluding the far-right party Spartiates (the Spartans). The ruling party New Democracy, along with opposition parties PASOK and New Left,...

The ancient Greek sanctuary and theater of Dodona, home to the oldest oracle,  and located in Epirus, northwestern Greece, are part of a uniquely historic site in the country, which predated even the more universally-known Delphi. Questions that required a...

An MP elected with the ultra-right Spartiates Party (Spartans) was arrested on Wednesday after he assaulted a colleague from the populist Elliniki Lysi (Greek Solution) party in the colonnade outside the plenum hall. Konstantinos Floros, now an independent MP, assaulted...

Four stunning ancient shipwrecks off central Greece can now be explored by amateur divers, the Ministry of Culture announced recently. The shipwrecks at the sites at the region of Magnesia in the Pagasetic Gulf are filled with artifacts from antiquity...

The US Congress has approved a $95bn (£76bn) foreign aid package that includes military support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The Senate on Tuesday evening backed the measure passed by the US House of Representatives on Saturday. It includes $61bn in...

Craco, a ghost town in Italy, located in the province of Matera about twenty-five miles inland from the Gulf of Taranto, was once inhabited by Greeks. The medieval village of Craco in Magna Graecia is typical of the hill towns of...

Determining which year in human history was the worst to be alive is subjective and there are many contenders for the top post. Among them 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic that claimed the lives of millions of people and shut...

Kurds are often denied equal access to political representation, economic resources and cultural freedoms in Turkey. Since the 1980s, Turkey has been engaged in a conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has resulted in over 40,000 deaths. By Recep...

After eleven years, the ancient theater of Thassos, one of the oldest in Greece, reopens to the public in mid-May, following the completion of extensive restoration work. The theater has been restored to the phase it was in during Roman...

An active volcano in Antarctica is shooting $6,000 in gold dust into the air every single day, NASA’s Earth Observatory revealed last week. The volcano on Mount Erebus spits pockets of gas containing 80 grams of crystallized gold daily, it...

An eerie, apocalyptic-like scene has befallen Greece with all-encompassing African dust sweeping across the nation. This was caught on camera plenty of times, and meteorologists have warned the phenomenon will be worsening today and continue into tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday,...

The Royal Navy's latest Astute Class submarine built by BAE Systems, due to be launched later this year, has been officially named Agamemnon, after the ancient Greek king. Agamemnon was officially named at BAE Systems' Submarines site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria...

There were “no significant changes” in the human rights situation in Greece over the past year, the US State Department said in its annual report which includes, however, a list of issues about the treatment of migrants, police, and...

A shipwreck believed to be connected to the Greek War of Independence in 1821-1829 was discovered recently off the coast of Halkidiki, northern Greece. In its wooden hull two cannons and a one-and-a-half-meter-long rifle, called kariofili, which Greek revolutionaries widely...