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Historian Anthony Molho Donates 6,470 Books to Athens’ Gennadius Library
The Thessaloniki-born Holocaust survivor built a distinguished academic career at Brown University and in Florence. His personal collection, with at least 600 more volumes expected, will become available to researchers in Athens.
Church Treasures Return to Greece After 109 Years in Exchange for Tsar Samuel’s Remains
Religious treasures removed from Macedonian monasteries during World War I are back in Greece after an exchange with Bulgaria. The agreement leaves ownership questions unresolved but allows negotiations over additional objects.
Otto Liman von Sanders and the Wartime Fate of Asia Minor’s Greeks
The German general serving the Ottoman Empire intervened against some deportations of Greeks and Armenians from the Aegean coast. He also ordered Greeks from Ayvalık into the interior, leaving a wartime record that remains difficult…
‘The Unconquered Spirit’ Brings Greece’s World War II Story to Paramus
A multimedia history program with live music will examine Greece’s experience during World War II on October 30 at St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church in Paramus.
What the Walls Remember: Orestis Pangalos and the Graffiti Archive
A new MOMUS exhibition in Thessaloniki draws on four decades of photographs, graffiti, installations and objects collected by Orestis Pangalos. The material documents not only works that survived, but also walls, trains and public spaces…
Ratko Mladić’s Death Brings the Greek Volunteers at Srebrenica Back Into View
Ratko Mladić’s death brings a little-remembered Greek connection to Srebrenica back into view: the Greek volunteers who served with Bosnian Serb forces when the enclave fell in July 1995.
Constantine Tsoucalas, Greek Sociologist and Public Intellectual, Passes Away at 89
The Athens-born scholar studied at Yale and later taught at Princeton, Columbia, and CUNY, while his work examined the Greek state, social inequality, and modern political life.
1,800-Year-Old Asklepios and Telesphoros Statue Group Unearthed at Aspendos
A 2.2-meter Roman-era marble group found along Theatre Street depicts the Greek god of medicine with Telesphoros, the deity associated with recovery after illness.
What Archaeologists Found Inside Cappadocia’s Rock-Carved Byzantine Church
The early 13th-century sanctuary sits within a rock-cut settlement around Nevşehir Castle and preserves wall paintings linked to Cappadocia’s Orthodox Christian communities under Seljuk rule.
Stelios Ramfos, Philosopher of Modern Greek Identity, Passes Away at 87
The Greek philosopher and writer spent decades examining how Orthodoxy, Byzantium, and Western thought shaped modern Greek society.
Moglena Castle Opens to Visitors After €1.85 Million Restoration
The Byzantine fortress near Chrysi in Pella has opened to the public after work stabilized its walls and added visitor routes, signs, viewing areas, restrooms and lighting.
New Ossa Museum Traces a Shoemaking Tradition That Reached America
The Shoemaker’s House near Thessaloniki follows Ossa’s cobblers from a documented 19th-century guild to family footwear businesses in northern Greece and migration as far as Argentina.
