Europe

By Catherine Tsounis "Absolutely everyone on my Kontiki Tour was heading to one place in Berlin: the Pergamon Museum which is the best Ancient Greek Museum in Europe,” said Despina Siolas. “It is amazing how all the museums of Germany...

The Great Altar of Pergamon, a sculpted frieze dating from the 2nd century BC and one of Berlin's top tourist attractions, will be closed for repair work in 2014, the museum said on Tuesday. The Pergamon Museum - which opened...

A major new exhibition offering a glimpse into life in the ancient Greek city of Pergamon opened here Friday. Visitors to Berlin's Pergamon Museum will be treated to a 24-metre (80-foot) high 360-degree panorama of the city in modern-day Turkey...

The Pergamon ancient theater in Turkey will “speak” ancient Greek again, as it will host the event “Reference to Prometheus - the vision of Sikelianos in Turkey”. Under the initiative of the “Friends of the Municipal Theater of Piraeus” ,...

Turkey is using the term "Turkaegean" or "Turkish Aegean," in highlighting ancient Greek monuments and archaeological sites in its new tourism campaign for Summer 2022. The west coast of Turkey, which includes Izmir, Ephesus, Ayvalik, Pergamon and many well-known historical...

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will host the third Halki Summit from May 31st to June 4th, 2019 in Turkey, according to a press release issued recently by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The summit will convene distinguished representatives from Orthodox theological...

A mysterious 2,000-year-old papyrus covered in mirror writing, including ancient Greek, had baffled scientists for years. Now researchers in Switzerland think they have solved the riddle of the strange document. The papyrus papers at the University of Basel formed part...

A 2,200-year-old theater located in the ancient Greek city of Laodicea will be restored with the support of the Denizli Metropolitan Municipality in Turkey. Laodicea was an ancient Greek city that was built upon the river Lycus, in the region...

A 55-kilometer section of a road that was built 2,000 years ago has been discovered in ongoing excavations of the ancient city of Aigai, located in Turkey's Manisa province. Assistant Professor Yusuf Sezgin, faculty member at the Celal Bayar University...

There are an almost limitless number of interesting things to do while visiting Berlin, Germany -- but it might surprise you that many of the sights you are about to take in have a certain Greek influence to them. That's...

Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Sunday by attending a Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul and signing a joint declaration of the two Churches. Pope Francis was enthusiastically greeted...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Saturday welcomed Pope Francis at the Ataturk International airport in Istanbul for a two-day visit. Accompanying the Ecumenical Patriarch to the airport were Elder Metropolitan John of Pergamon, Archbishop Demetrios of America and Grand Archdeacon...

In a meeting on Thursday, Alexis Tsipras, the president of SYRIZA, asked for the support of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and churches from other countries on the universal humanitarian request for a change on the current migration policy. That policy...

For the first time since the schism of 1054, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, will attend the inauguration of new Pope Francis, the Vatican radio reported. The spiritual leaders of the world's Orthodox Christians will attend Pope Francis’s inaugural...

Last Thursday the famous Art Museum “Kunsthalle” of Leoben, Austria, inaugurated an exhibition dedicated to the gods of ancient Greece, titled “The Return of the Gods”. The event was attended by many representatives of Austrian public life, Letters and...