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Antiquity missing since WWII returns to Greece
An ancient artifact, missing since German occupation, has been returned to Greece by Hanover's municipality and the August Kestner Museum, the Greek Culture Ministry announced on Tuesday.
The artifact, a 620-600 BC three-leaf oinochoe with a lid, resurfaced with inscribed decoration. Initially acquired in 1986, the museum confirmed its illegal removal during Nazi rule.
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Greece to reclaim ancient horse from US after court ruling
The Greek Culture Ministry said Wednesday it would seek the repatriation from New York of a 2,700-year-old bronze horse statuette which it says was illegally exported from Greece, after a US court rejected an auction house's bid to proceed with the sale of the artifact.
Ottoman mosques cast historic light in Greek capital
Tracing the history of the Greek capital Athens, we can see not only the sacred rock of the classical Acropolis but a mixture of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman eras.
Even though Greece was under Ottoman rule for almost four centuries, few remains of that period are visible now.
Safeguarding Greece’s antiquities from climate change
The Greek Culture Ministry is putting together an interdisciplinary committee of experts who will be responsible for drawing up a national action plan to tackle the impact of climate change on the country's archaeological sites and historic monuments.
Former prison island declared an area of archaeological interest
The Greek Culture Ministry's advisory body on the protection of antiquities, the Central Archaeological Council (KAS), ruled that the small, uninhabited island of Makronissos is an area of archaeological interest.
The proposal came from the Cyclades Ephorate of Antiquities which is conducting field expeditions on the island in the past few years and the decision came on July 2.
Ancient Greek culture showcased at Indianapolis museum
A man and a child view a display at the 'Treasures of Ancient Greece: Life, Myth and Heroes' exhibition at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis in the US. Co-organized by the Greek Culture Ministry, the exhibition includes 150 items taken from 20 major Greek museums and seeks to familiarize the American public, and children especially, with the achievements of ancient Greek civilization.
Small fire breaks out at Numismatic Museum, no exhibits damaged
Firefighters were able to quickly contain a fire that broke out on Monday morning at the Numismatic Museum of Athens, the Greek Culture Ministry said in a statement.
No exhibits were damaged in the blaze which is believed to have been caused by a short-circuit in an airconditioning unit on the second floor of the building, the statement said.
Exhibition in Germany celebrates Mycenaean civilization
The Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany, is dedicating a major exhibition to the Bronze Age civilization of the Mycenaeans.
Titled "Mycenae - The Legendary World of Agamemnon," the exhibition runs to June next year and aims to provide comprehensive insights into the Mycenaean era, which stretched from 1600 to 1200 BC.
Culture Ministry condemns vandalism of angel sculpture
The Greek Culture Ministry has condemned the destruction of a statue at a public square on Athens's southern coast that religious zealots said symbolized Satan.
Return of stolen antiquities puts a WWII hero in the spotlight
Nikolaos Platon was known for never exaggerating, however wild his archaeological adventures may have seemed. Slight and modest, with a PhD from Paris, he was one of the unlikely heroes of occupied Greece in World War II, defending the country's monuments at any cost.