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Two earthquakes rattle Crete

Story at Protothema [Greek]

The Parthenon's amazing new facelift

Part of an effort ongoing since 1975. Story at Washington Post [English]

Parthenon's "new look - unseen for 200 years"

Story at MSN New York Post [English]

"A Partial Glow-Up" for the Parthenon

Story at New York Times [English]

The western facade of the Parthenon, built in the 5th century B.C., is now in "its most complete form possible for the first time in about 220 years," the Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Thursday, after restorers added marble slabs to fill gaps in the temple’s western pediment..."

"Land cleanup" deadline is a day away

Story at Athens News Agency [Greek]

Investigating the murder of a woman in Chania

Story at Kathimerini [Greek] [Map of Chania]

Pavlos Polakis makes accusations against the SYRIZA leadership

Story at Athina984 [Greek]

The ancient theatre of Epidaurus reviving the 1961 version of Medea that starred Maria Callas

Story at AFP News [English]

How new tech is changing the "tourism experience"

Story at MSN Euronews [English]

What to wear on a trip to Greece

Story at AOL [English]

"The strongest inflationary pressures in three years"

Story at In.gr [Greek]

New support measures legislation

Story at Protothema [English]

Hunt on for brutal killer of animal in Gastouni

Story at Parapolitika [Greek] [Map of Gastouni]

Inflation rose because of the Iran-USA conflict, will it drop off?

Story at In.gr [Greek]

What's going to happen to oil costs in the wake of the Iran-USA deal?

Story at Real [Greek]

Hiking across Evia

Story at Irish Examiner [English]


On the island of Crete a covered street

Friday, June 19, 2026

Patriot anti-missile batteries remaining in Karpathos

Story at Real [Greek]

Foreign man arrested for massive fraud activities in Piraeus

Story at Parapolitika [Greek]

Life sentence for child killer in Menidi

Story at Protothema [Greek]

Flight delays, forcing widespread rerouting over Greek airspace

Story at eKathimerini [English]

Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis and the "renewal" of European Public Prosecutor's Office

Story at Liberal [Greek]

Haris Doukas to exit PASOK for Tsipras' party?

Story at Iefimerida [Greek]

The controversy of Ioannis Kapodistrias

Story at UK The Guardian [English]

Parthenon facade revealed again after 220 years

Story at MSN Euronews [English]

The pediment, which generations of Greek citizens and visitors from all over the world had grown used to seeing incomplete, is regaining its architectural unity."


Nafplio with palms by the sea

Nafplion



NEW BOOK: THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF SPIES: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece by Stephan Talty

AMAZON

"Young set about recruiting the most unlikely of spies—academics, classicists, epigraphers, and other specialists and scholars—who would come to be kown as “the Greek Desk.” These men and women, along with their Greek allies, went undercover and tried desperately to protect some of the world’s most significant treasures. The archaeologists hid priceless artifacts in ancient caves, bank vaults, and even underneath the city of Athens itself."


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