Greek underworld

An ancient Greek statue of the goddess Demeter, on display at the British Museum, was targeted by the environmental activist organization Just Stop Oil on Thursday.

"I was just down on Earth and every human person that I saw down there was conspicuously convivial. Not scared. And when they're not scared, they're not worshiping me," confides Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) to Prometheus (Stephen Dillane) in the new Netflix series "Kaos," which has enjoyed immense success since its debut.

The vessel was identified in a complaint to the island's Port Authority by the captain of a nearby ship - The "Persephone" had been rented by a group of 17 foreigners who are now giving statements to the Fire Brigade

It's a case of Hermes vs Hermes. One, the global luxury goods giant based in Paris, is suing the other, a cozy bookseller tucked away in a Turkish seaside town, over alleged trade name infringement.

Ümit Nar, who owns the Sahaf Hermes store in the Aegean coast city of İzmir, argues that he has been in business for 15 years and never once been mistaken for a French luxury goods maker.

Archaeologists excavating a hilltop sanctuary on the Aegean Sea island of Kythnos have discovered "countless" pottery offerings left by ancient worshippers over the centuries, Greece's Culture Ministry said on June 7.

The city of Elefsina is turning into a new cultural destination of Attica thanks to the organization "Elefsina 2023 Cultural Capital of Europe".

The Gate of Hell, (Plutonium), which was unearthed in 2013 by the Italian excavation team in Pamukkale, one of Türkiye's UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, has been opened to visitors. Plutonium, which is called the "gateway to the land of the dead" in ancient sources, began hosting hundreds of local and foreign tourists on the very first day.

On arrival visitors were introduced to Charon, the ferryman, before being asked to pay him an obol for entry…

Persephone is a tour guide in Greece, but perhaps not the type people are used to.

Billed as the world's first robot tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors since mid-July to the Alistrati Cave in northern Greece.

The Gate of Hell (Plutonium), which was discovered in 2013 in the excavations in the ancient city of Hierapolis, located next to Pamukkale in western Turkey, and which was considered as the "gateway to the land of the dead" in the ancient world, is set to be opened to visitors this year.