Dec 25, 2024 · Olympus. Elatochori on Mount Olympus. Credit: Facebook/Elatochori Ski Resort. The Elatochori Ski Center is located on the mountains of Pieria on the northern slopes of Mount Olympus.The center, which sits at 1,450 meters above sea level, has six ski trails, and it’s also possible to go snowboarding in the Snowboard Fun Park.

Dec 29, 2024 · Theatrical mask of Dionysus discovered in Western Turkey. An extremely expressive terracotta mask, thought to represent Dionysus, was recently unearthed during excavations of the ancient Greek city of Daskyleion in Western Turkey.. The newly-discovered treasure, which appears to represent a rather tipsy god, was located in the city’s acropolis, and is thought to have served as a votive ...

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Dec 7, 2024 · Great philosopher Plato invents the alarm clock. Plato, the famous ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician who lived from ca. 427 BC to 347 BC, and who founded the first institution of higher education in the Western world, the Academy of Athens, was said to have been the first person to introduce the snooze alarm into human history.. In his effort to wake people up and get them to their ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Pope Francis will open five Holy Doors in a long-standing catholic tradition and will introduce a never-before-seen ritual. Credits: Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pope Francis will open five Holy Doors at the Vatican in a long-standing catholic tradition and will introduce a never-before-seen ritual.

Dec 26, 2024 · Only a drawing of the sphinx remains, as the statue was stolen in the 19th century and has disappeared. Public Domain. A mysterious inscription on an ancient Sphinx that puzzled scientists for decades has finally been deciphered as Greek writing.

Dec 22, 2024 · The monastery of Saint Dionysios at Mount Athos. Credit: Fingalo, CC BY-SA 2.0 de/Wikipedia commons Mount Athos, referred to in Greek as the “Holy Mountain”, is one of the most important centers of the Christian Orthodox world.. Home to twenty monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, it is governed as an autonomous state within the Greek ...

Dec 29, 2024 · However, the significance of Hagia Sophia (“Holy Wisdom” in English) was assuredly not just because of its imposing size.. Hagia Sophia in history. Built on a strategic area of land in the “New Jerusalem,” as Constantinople was called at the time of its construction, it was a symbol of the greatness of the Byzantine Empire and the …

Dec 28, 2024 · Line 4 of the Athens Metro to be completed by 2029. Credit: Greek Reporter. An ambitious new Athens metro project – a U-shaped underground route spanning 13 kilometers of tunnels called Line 4 – will alleviate the city’s heavy urban traffic woes upon its anticipated completion in 2029. It is the largest infrastructure project of its kind in Greece.

Dec 27, 2024 · Could the ancient Greek god Poseidon have been an exiled extraterrestrial? Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Greek Reporter illustration. There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life in trying to answer the many questions about the universe.. The Aristotelian worldview of a unified, finite cosmos without extraterrestrials was very influential in ancient ...