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ATHENS, June 26 (Reuters) - Greece on Wednesday opened to the public an exhibition of more than 1,100 artefacts, from statues and table games to children's toys, found in an ancient Athens ...

Greece's minister of culture,Giorgos Vougarakis, doffed his suit jacket and lent a hand to a team of technicians in Athens on Thursday, as officials demonstrated the process of transferring more than ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Gods, heroes and long-dead mortals stepped off their plinths into the evening sky of Athens on Saturday during the lavish launch of the new Acropolis Museum, a decades-old dream that ...

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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece opens the gates of the long-awaited Acropolis Museum on Saturday, hoping the modern glass and concrete building will help bring back the Classical Parthenon sculptures from ...

A century and a half ago, Athens was a humble, forgotten city of about 8,000 people. Today one out of every three Greeks packs into this city of more than three million. At its center, the Acropolis ...