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A British amateur metal detectorist literally struck gold by making a great archaeological discovery of a gold cloak fastener that dates back to the Bronze Age. The 54-year-old Jonathan Needham found the precious 3,000-year-old artifact on a patch of land...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country's history.

An English-Greek man had the distinction of being the designer of one of the two most emblematic cars in the world, the Mini Cooper.

Turkey will not allow two minehunter ships donated to Ukraine by Britain to pass through to the Black Sea. Minehunter Ships to Ukraine to Be Blocked Last month, Britain announced it would transfer two Royal Navy minehunter ships to the Ukrainian...

Since mid-August, the British Museum has been mired in a controversy over the theft of about 2,000 objects from its collections. The theft is suspected to be an inside job that took place over a period of twenty years....

The British Museum had to fire a member of staff and has laid out some "emergency measures" after items were stolen. The goods that disappeared include gold jewelery and semiprecious gems and glass that range in date from the 15th...

Julia Wendell, a 21-year-old from Poland, has become an internet sensation after creating an Instagram account with the handle "@iammadeleinemcann." On the account, she asserts that she could be Madeleine McCann, a toddler from the United Kingdom who was reported...

Vivienne Westwood, the "Queen of British Fashion", died on Thursday in London. She was 81. In a statement on Twitter, Westwood’s fashion house said: “29th December 2022. Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South...

Lara Vafiadis a Greek-British woman rows solo in the Atlantic Ocean to honor her dad who passed away recently and raise funds for charity. Vafiadis is currently rowing more than 3000 miles from San Sebastian in La Gomera, Canary Islands,...

A British Navy warship HMS Portland has tracked two Russian submarines in the North Sea. The British submarine hunter shadowed the vessels from Russia's Northern Fleet after they surfaced separately northwest of Bergen, Norway. The two submarines were tracked as...

Over 100,000 Greek artifacts are stored underground in the vaults of the British Museum, the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) revealed over the weekend. The BCRPM says that using Freedom of Information provisions, it has...

A British man named Tom Baker is the DaVinci of wintertime windows, creating enormous, magical scenes from sprayed-on white paint that transform clear panes into Christmastime wonderlands. We have most likely all seen and perhaps even used the removable paint...

For those keeping track of the British Museum's treatment of the Parthenon Marbles, the statues and friezes taken by Lord Elgin from atop the Acropolis in 1801, the news is not good. The gallery where they were displayed has now...

British lawmaker Sir David Amess was murdered in a knife attack that occurred at a constituency meeting on Friday in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London. The member of Boris Johnson's Conservative party succumbed to multiple knife wounds after being stabbed a...

A British couple living in Greece for many years describe the chaos that Brexit brought to the lives. The changes that had to be made, the battles with Greek bureaucracy, the frustration of being deprived of political rights.  "I...