Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

All traditions are human inventions that last briefly or, sometimes, forever. Some of those innovations are extremely useful, and last, others vanish, only to be replaced by better alternatives. We ...

Another major reason why Halloween is gaining such popularity in Greece is that it resembles one of Greece’s most popular ...

Spring is here and brings along with it several religious holidays: Easter, Ramadan and Passover. Western Easter was several weeks ago, but Orthodox Easter is being observed on May 2 this year. I ...

Correspondent photo / Brandon Cantwell The Filarakia (translates to “friends”) served as the primary musical entertainment at the 38th annual Summerfest on Saturday. ...Correspondent photo / Brandon ...

For several years, a photographer has documented local Greek customs and attire, turning his lens toward his country’s vibrant traditional culture. Shadows from an ...

ATHENS, Greece--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On December 9th, the exhibition “Longevity in the Tao of Chrysanthemum: The Artistic World of Qi Baishi,” supported by Kweichow Moutai Group, opened at the Athens ...

Many of us will be celebrating Easter on March 31st this year and are already shopping for Easter basket stuffers and gifts. The same isn’t true for folks who follow the Orthodox calendar, however. In ...

A German woman returned a 2,400 year-old relic from Ancient Olympia in Greece after taking it from the site in the 1960s. The Greek Ministry of Culture has called her decision an act of 'sensitivity ...

The Greek government and the British Museum have held talks in recent years over the return of the Parthenon sculptures.

The Greeks first colonized the Bay of Naples and the various cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum that studded its sun-kissed coast in 600 BC. Centuries later, when the Romans conquered Greece in 146 ...