Tag: HISTORY

📢 A Must-See Exhibition: The Antikythera Shipwreck at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation! ⚓✨

For the first time, over 80 artifacts from the legendary Antikythera Shipwreck are on display in the most comprehensive temporary exhibition to date! 🏺🔱

🔍 Explore the ship’s equipment, cargo, and the lives of its passengers. From bronze rings used to manage sails to fragments of marble and bronze statues, including the impressive marble head of Hercules.

📍 Where? Ίδρυμα Αικατερίνης Λασκαρίδη, Piraeus
📅 When? Exhibition with guided tours & educational workshops until March 30

🔎 Visit to uncover the mysteries of this 124-year-old underwater treasure where the world-famous Antikythera Mechanism was found! 🌊

#antikytherashipwreck #underwaterarchaeology

A Neolithic Centaur from Thessaly at the National Archaeological Museum reflects man’s struggle against the wild elements of nature. The Centaurs, half human, half horse, are among the strangest creatures created by the ancient Greek imagination - an artistic legacy popular in Art throughout centuries.

📚📚How does a Maltese poet and translator end up in a small village in Ithaca? How challenging was to make his dream to start a Mediterranean library on the island come true?

Antoine Cassar spoke to Reading Greece about his amazing journey from Luxembourg where he worked as a translator to Limourata, Northern Ithaca and his venture, Biblioteca Francesco, “a Mediterranean library on Homer’s path".