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New Testimony Details 2017 Exhumations After Cyprus’ Athalassa Hospital Bombing
An archaeologist and former nurse have recounted the improvised burials that followed the 1974 Turkish air attack and the 2017 search for victims’ remains.
Theodoros Papakostas Revisits ‘The Other Half’ of Ancient Greece
The Archaeostoryteller’s latest book traces the Greek cities of southern Italy and Sicily, presenting Magna Graecia as a central part of the ancient Greek world.
Mount Olympus Added to UNESCO World Heritage List After 12-Year Effort
UNESCO has listed the wider Mount Olympus area as a mixed cultural and natural property, recognizing its mythology, archaeological connection to Dion and exceptional biodiversity.
Hellenic Museum of Michigan Seeks Family Photos and Immigration Stories
Greek-American families can submit one photograph and a brief account by August 5. Selected entries will be displayed during Assumption GreekFest in St. Clair Shores.
Before Nolan, N.C. Wyeth Brought The Odyssey to the Brandywine
Nearly a century before Christopher Nolan brought Odysseus to IMAX, N.C. Wyeth illustrated Homer’s epic in Chadds Ford. One painting later resurfaced in a Philadelphia corporate hallway.
Why Greek Families Opened Diners in America
From late-night coffee to college tuition, Greek-owned diners became a path from immigrant labor to family ownership across the Northeast and beyond.
European Parliament Recognizes Women and Girls Affected by Crimes During the 1974 Invasion of Cyprus
The European Parliament adopted a resolution recognizing women and girls affected by crimes during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Medieval Cypriot Medical Text Reveals How Everyday Medicine Was Made
A late 13th-century Cypriot medical handbook reveals how plants, minerals, shells, fire, wine, and vinegar shaped everyday healing in the Byzantine world.
AI Helps Read Herculaneum Scroll Closed Since Antiquity
Researchers used AI, X-ray imaging, and virtual unwrapping to read a closed Herculaneum scroll, recovering ancient Greek philosophical text without physically opening the fragile papyrus.
1453 Was Not Inevitable: Anthony Kaldellis Reopens the Fall of Constantinople
Anthony Kaldellis’s 1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople revisits the fall of the city not as an inevitable collapse, but as a human crisis shaped by strategy, delay, fear, resistance, and loss.
Philadelphia’s Lost Greek Coffeehouse at 1018 Locust Street
A 1917 photograph, a Greek sign, a tobacco factory, two census names, and a musician’s memory open a window onto Philadelphia’s first Greek quarter.
A Green Bin, a Worn Album, and the Record of a Greek-American VFW Post
GAHSP has received the archives of Eleftheria VFW Post 6633, preserving decades of Greek-American veterans’ history in Philadelphia.
