I first caught a glimpse of it through a window at the entrance to the Astir resort’s beach club in Vouliagmeni, on Athens’ southern coast. 

A team from the National Organization of Public Health (EODY) conducted on Wednesday 36 tests on employees working for the Athens Ephorate of Antiquities as part of its tracing system, after a cleaner tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week.

The Museum of the Stoa of Attalos, in the archaeological site of the Ancient Agora in Athens, will remain closed for 14 days due to the detection of a coronavirus case.

A series of events will be held in 37 of the 77 museums and archaeological sites throughout Greece that will be open and free to the public on Monday night for the full moon of August.

Visitors wearing virtual reality headsets are seen at the information center of the newly inaugurated Underwater Museum of Peristera, on the western Aegean island of Alonissos, on opening day on Saturday. The museum, the first of its kind in Greece, showcases the Peristera shipwreck, named after the uninhabited island opposite Alonissos where it was discovered in the early 1990s. Until October 2, amateur divers will be able to explore the vessel that went down under unknown circumstances in the 5th century BC carrying a cargo of hundreds of amphoras of wine. The site will be monitored with underwater cameras. [EPA]

Hidden and protected for millennia, an ancient shipwreck in Greece opens to the public for the first time on Aug. 3, fusing archaeological wonders in the depths of the sea with the marvels of modern-day artificial intelligence.

A 64-year-old man was arrested in the northern Greek city of Drama on Thursday after police found in his possession priceless antiquities, including 5,533 ancient coins and jewellery.

A handout photo made available by the Greek Ministry of Culture shows part of an ancient tank excavation site in Piraeus, south of Athens, in July 2014 (photo issued 12 July 2020). During excavation works in the wells for the expansion of Line 3 of the metro in Piraeus, a large volume of ancient artifacts was found. More than 4,000 of those items have been preserved with 1,400 utensils and 1,300 rare wooden objects which come from houses, household items, furniture and tools. [Greek Ministry of Culture/EPA]

A collection of notebooks, drawings, plans and photographs by English archaeologist Alan Wace, who conducted numerous field projects in Greece in the 20th century, has been digitally assembled by the University of Cambridge and the British School of Athens and made available to the public.

Greece is set to open its first underwater museum next month, showcasing the wealth of marine life and a historic wreck off the coast of the western Aegean island of Alonissos.

Overshadowed by its better-known yet smaller neighbor Delos, the enchanting and mysterious Cycladic island of Rineia, which is closed to the general public, has a peculiar history that few are familiar with.

In cooperation with the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, the National Archaeological Museum presents “Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World,” a temporary exhibition in the Sculpture Collection’s Gallery 31A running through December 31.

Employees at the capital’s Acropolis Museum await visitors last Monday, when Greek museums opened following the easing of measures put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In comments over the weekend on the 11th anniversary of the museum, which was purpose-built to house the Parthenon Marbles, now in the British Museum, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the current Greek government – like previous administrations – will never stop claiming the ‘stolen’ sculptures. ‘It is sad that one of the world’s largest and most important museums is still governed by outdated, colonialist views,’ Mendoni told Ta Nea. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

This is going to be an odd summer for archaeologists trying to carry out the excavations planned for this period as the health crisis has mandated a series of measures ensuring safety at digs.

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has accused the British Museum of being “governed by outdated, colonialist views” in its continued refusal to return the Parthenon sculptures.

Visitors wear face masks as they view exhibits at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, which marked the 11th anniversary since its opening with a special information event for the media on Thursday.  To further celebrate its birthday, the museum is offering visitors a reduced entry fee of 5 euros on Saturday. It will apply to all permanent exhibition areas, as well as the temporary ‘Chisel and Memory‘ exhibition. The museum reopened to the public on Monday after being closed for almost three months due to Covid-19 restrictions. Around 150 people visit the museum each day since the reopening. Before the lockdown, the museum had about 3,000 visitors per day. [Orestis Panagiotou/EPA]

The Acropolis Museum is celebrating coming out of lockdown and its 11th birthday by marking down its admission fee from 10 euros to 5 euros on Saturday, June 20, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Museums across the country will reopen on Monday after a three-month shutdown imposed by health authorities to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

When Myrtis was brought back to virtual life in 2010, her image and story was shared on social media around the world. Now, the ancient Athenian 11-year-old is being mobilized in the battle against the novel coronavirus.

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.