Greece Gives Scandalized Proton Bank $142 Million
ATHENS - Greece has taken steps to support a small private bank chaired by former US Ambassador Daniel Speckhard amid an embezzlement probe targeting several major shareholders. Greek daily Eleftherot...
Two Films Show The Nazi Shadow Fell Over Greece’s Jews Too
- Constantine S. Sirigos
- •
- May 05, 2011
NEW YORK – History knows the bravery of Greeks during World War II, but still relatively little of how many Greek Jews were lost – an oversight that two documentaries shown on May 1 at the Jewish Cult...
What Turkey Wants You to Forget
- TNH staff
- •
- April 14, 2011
There have been many histories and testimonies about the massacre at Smyrna, including Christos Papoutsy’s incisive and thoroughly-researched book Ships of Mercy, and they all point to the same horror...
The Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer
- Leonidas Petrakis, PhD
- •
- February 24, 2011
Imagine Roman merchant galleys heading to Rome during the First Century B.C. from Rhodes and other ports of the economically and culturally rich Eastern Mediterranean, ferrying plundered goods for the...
Public Transport Workers on Strike in Athens
- The Associated Press
- •
- February 01, 2011
ATHENS, Greece -- Athens transport unions are holding a new strike against planned public sector reforms, leading to jams on the Greek capital's streets as commuters travel to work by car or taxi.
...
Cretan Tools Point to 130,000-Year-Old Sea Travel
- The Associated Press
- •
- January 04, 2011
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world's first sea voyages by human ancestors, the Greek Culture Ministry said Monday.
...
Greek Archaeological Finds Among 10 Most Important in 2010
- ANA- MPA
- •
- December 28, 2010
ATHENS -- The latest archaeological findings unearthed in Greece over the past year are in the top 10 discoveries of 2010 list, published in the latest issue of Archaeology Magazine, a publication of ...
Famine and Despair on the Island of Ikaria During WWII
- John Chrysochoos, Ph.D.
- •
- December 18, 2010
Following the collapse of the depleted Greek Armed Forces in the spring of 1941, due to their engagement in fierce battles on two different fronts against the combined Italian and German assault, Ikar...
Falkonera Shipwreck Anniversary
- ANA- MPA
- •
- December 09, 2010
December 8th marked the 44th anniversary of one of the worst maritime accidents in Greece, the widely known as 'Falkonera shipwreck' in which 217 people drowned. Ferryboat 'Heraklion' sailed from Soud...
How Ancient Greeks Honored Heroes
- James T. Chlup - Winnipeg Free Press
- •
- November 10, 2010
Individuals and families constantly reflected upon the achievements of their ancestors. How your father, your grandfather and members of earlier generations conducted themselves was meant to guide you...
Greek Court Rewrites History on 1922 ‘Traitors’
- The Associated Press
- •
- October 23, 2010
Reversing one of the most infamous court decisions in Greek history, the Supreme Court has posthumously acquitted six top politicians and soldiers executed nearly 90 years ago for a crushing military ...
Skeleton Not Alexander the Great's Half-Brother
- Stephanie Pappas - Live Science
- •
- September 16, 2010
A cremated male skeleton in a lavish ancient Greek tomb is not Alexander the Great's half-witted half-brother, according to a new study.
The research reignites a 33-year-long debate over whether th...
Halley's Comet First Spotted by Ancient Greeks
- Mike Wall - Space
- •
- September 15, 2010
The ancient Greeks probably saw Halley's comet streak past in 466 B.C., pushing the earliest documented observation of the comet back by more than 200 years, a new study has found.
And a meteorite ...
'Antikythera Mechanism' exhibition ope
- ANA- MPA
- •
- August 17, 2010
ΑTHENS, Greece - An exhibition entitled "The Mechanism of Antikythera" will be on display on the southwestern Aegean island of Kythera (Kythira) until Sept. 19, an initiative by the ministry of educat...
Orthodox Flock to Once - Banned Holy Site In Turkey
SUMELA MONASTERY, Turkey (Reuters) - Europe Papadopolous's grandparents were children when they fled their village in northeast Turkey and settled in Greece almost 90 years ago, yet she still felt she...
Page 1 out of 4 pages for Greece-History
