Epitalio

Petros Themelis, one of the most prominent Greek archaeologists who headed the excavation and restoration of the vast site of Ancient Messene since 1987 has died, aged 87. 

He spent his last few days in the ICU of the hospital in Kalamata.

Themelis was born in 1936 in Thessaloniki and studied at the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki.

The last of the five men who had escaped from a police station in Pyrgos was recaptured late on Wednesday, officers said on Thursday.

The 25-year-old man had not left the Peloponnese and was arrested in the town of Epitalio, Ilia.

The other four had also been picked up in Ilia.