The discovery features a large-scale frieze that spans three walls of a banquet hall, presenting vivid imagery of the initiation rites for followers of Dionysus – the ancient Greek god of wine, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy.

The Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) has issued a statement regarding the serious injury of an employee in Thessaloniki following a workplace accident.

A police officer who found to be driving a vehicle that had been reported stolen was arrested late Tuesday night by officers from the Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni crime department.

The group ceramic exhibition “Pyr Anapte” (Ignite Fire) will take place from March 1 to 23 at the Industrial Gas Museum in Technopolis (100 Pireos).

The Hellenic Police has planned enhanced road safety measures for the Carnival and Clean Monday holiday period, running from February 28 to March 3, to ensure the safe movement of citizens and the prevention of traffic accidents.

Eleven more antiquities, collectively valued at nearly $1 million, are being repatriated from the United States, as part of a collaboration between the Culture Ministry and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to wish him a happy birthday. The Turkish leader has turned 71.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold a press conference on Friday to discuss talks with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and share an expected statement from him, a senior party official has told Reuters.

Singer Manolis Lidakis has died at the age of 64.

A small group of foreign tourists, including travelers from Greece, visited North Korea last week, marking the first international sightseeing trip to the country in five years, aside from Russian visitors allowed in last year, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

Thousands of foreign nationals in Greece face prolonged delays in obtaining citizenship, with many waiting years despite fulfilling legal requirements.

Rhodes and Lasithi posted the biggest growth in takings from the tourism-related sectors.

A 33-year-old railway worker was severely injured on Wednesday morning after attempting to board a moving train in the Sindos area, near Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.

The government will introduce the International Baccalaureate (IB) program in 15 public high schools starting in 2026, expanding beyond its initial plan for five institutions, officials announced Monday.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party expects to visit Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan in jail within days after which he is expected to make a statement on the Kurdish separatist group’s future, a DEM spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed the upcoming protests marking the anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster on Wednesday, urging respect for the victims’ memory while warning that political exploitation and division pose a risk to domestic stability.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has launched a public consultation.

The government is overhauling the institutional framework of the “social consideration” program, with the aim of attracting contracting companies that will undertake the construction of social housing on public property.

Against the neoclassical backdrop of the Zappeion, a ceremony of quiet grandeur unfolded in the heart of Athens on Tuesday.

Technical issues have disrupted services on the Thessaloniki Metro on Wednesday.