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21 objects from Antikythera shipwreck to be exhibited

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[:el] Twenty-one objects recovered in the recent underwater excavations on the Antikythera shipwreck will be exhibited for the first time as a unified set at the Aiketarini Laskaridis Foundation in Piraeus in December. The exhibition will he held on the occasion of the presentation of...
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Chair of the Department of Classics at Kenyon College

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[:el] Zoë Sophia Kontes is an associate classics professor in the Department of Classics at Kenyon College. She teaches surveys of both Greek and Roman archaeology, and seminars on the illicit antiquities trade, ancient cult practice and Athenian topography. Z. Kontes is of Greek heritage...
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“Odyssey” exhibition inaugurated

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[:el] The National Archaeological Museum is celebrating 150 years since its opening and is hosting a series of events and exhibitions to mark the occasion. President Prokopis Pavlopoulos inaugurated the year-long exhibition titled “Odysseys” on October 3, 2016. It is a particularly symbolic date, since it was...
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Antikythera Mechanism in the Science Festival of Russia

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[:el] An exhibition on the Mechanical World, the Antikythera Mechanism and the history of Greek Astronomy, Astrophysics and Physics will be presented at 10.7.2016 at the Science Festival of Russia in Moscow. Xenophon Mousas, a professor of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics of the Faculty of Science...
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The inspiration for the Terracotta Warriors in China came from Ancient Greece

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[:el]Archaeologists, according to BBC, say inspiration for the Terracotta Warriors, found at the Tomb of the First Emperor near today’s Xian, may have come from Ancient Greece. China and the West were in contact more than 1,500 years before European explorer Marco Polo arrived in...
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New findings from the 3,500-year-old tomb of a bronze age warrior

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[:el] A trove of beautifully engraved gold rings and gemstones, found in the untouched grave of an ancient Greek warrior last year, were possessions from his culture, not loot from the nearby island of Crete, archaeologists now believe, according to New York Times. The gold rings,...

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