Culture Ministry

The house in Istanbul's Fatih neighborhood, where Orhan Kemal, one of Türkiye's most prominent literary figures, lived as a tenant from 1954 to 1966, has been put up for sale.

Conservation work inside a monastery near the town of Aigio in the Peloponnese has revealed a mural of Constantine XI Palaiologos (1405-1453) that an expert says is the only known living portrait of the last Byzantine emperor.

An illegally acquired hoard of antiquities, including objects from the Geometric (1100-750 BC) to the Hellenistic (up to 31 BC) periods and 3,247 coins, has been discovered in the basement of a commercial property in central Athens, the Culture Ministry has announced.

A white marble statue of a naked male figure has been discovered during preparatory works to lay natural gas pipes, the Culture Ministry has said.

The statue, in the Hermes Ludovisi style, was unearthed in a meter-wide trench to the south of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, at the junction of Erechthiou and Kalliperi streets.

ATHENS - After climate change brought another year of record-breaking heat and dwindling rainfall to Greece, the reservoirs that supply water to Athens have dropped to their lowest levels in over a decade. Farmers are struggling to produce crops, wildfires have increased the demand for water and priests are conducting prayers for rain.

In the heart of Athens, amid the winding streets of Plaka, preparations are nearing completion for a cultural milestone: the opening of the Odysseas Elytis House Museum on November 1.

Elytis' legacy as a Nobel laureate is enshrined not only in his written word but also in the spaces that shaped his thought.

The Culture Ministry is set to transform visitor experiences at the Bronze Age archaeological site of Phaistos on the island of Crete, reflecting a commitment to accessibility and modernization.

Three Greek antiquities that had been removed from Greece at an unknown date have been repatriated from the United States, the Culture Ministry announced Tuesday.

Active fire protection systems will be installed at the sites and the museums of the Ancient Agora and Kerameikos in Athens as part of the Culture Ministry's program for the holistic promotion of the archaeological sites, budgeted at 6.5 million euros.

The Council of State, Greece's top administrative court, has once again rejected an appeal by the Coco-Mat hotel in the Makrygianni neighborhood of central Athens over its height.

More specifically, the supreme annulment court dismissed an appeal by Blue Cedar Investments, which sought to overturn a decision by the Culture Ministry to reduce the height of the already-built hotel.