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Trying to find a somewhat isolated location to spend the holidays, away from the maddening crowd as they say, can prove to be quite a challenge, even for the savviest and most informed of travelers. Still, those looking to give it a shot might as well try one small village off the coast of Chalkidiki, Greece, known a... |
11 July 2009
10:30 GMT |
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New evidence brought forth in studies seems to indicate the fact that the bright and shiny-white marbles on the triangular gables of the Athenian Parthenon were in the past brightly colored, and that the paintings most likely covered the entire surface of the temple. A team of experts from the British Museum in Londo... |
16 June 2009
05:02 GMT |
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While investigating a cave in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, archaeologists discovered pottery fragments more than 18,000 years old, the most ancient ones ever found. Until now, the oldest pieces of ceramics ever found were created between 15,000 and 16,000 years ago, also in East Asia. While, for the rest o... |
2 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The ancient town of Pavlopetri was first discovered in the 1960s, at the southern tip of Greece, near the city of Neapolis. Located only a few meters under the sea floor, it represents one of the few preserved and submerged cities in the world, whose features survived well enough to merit complex archaeological inves... |
19 May 2009
18:41 GMT |
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The Ancient Greeks are famous for the magnificent temples they built to honor their gods, some of which precede many other religions that are currently present in Europe. The constructions were truly architectonic wonders, considering the fact that the technology at the time, namely more than 2,000 years ago, didn�... |
2 February 2009
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The Antikythera mechanism, believed to be the world's oldest computer, has finally been replicated by a British museum curator, more than 100 years after it was first discovered. The original design, intricate and precise as a Swiss clock, was used to calculate dates, motions of the planets throughout our solar ... |
23 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Ancient Greeks were among the first people to have traded their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle for the sedentary farming ways about eight millennia ago. During the prehistoric times, which lasted until about 4,000 years ago, they constantly developed, as manufacture and trade reached unparalleled greatness in thei... |
12 December 2008
08:48 GMT |
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As it frequently happens, some dig works destined for maintenance and building purposes have lead to the accidental discovery of an ancient village close to Vassili village located in the central Thessaly periphery of Greece, about 170 miles (280 kilometers) north of Athens. While attempting to place a gas pipe, duri... |
21 November 2008
08:44 GMT |
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The horse racing track at Olympia, one of the last unsolved puzzles regarding the site where the Greeks first organized the Olympic Games in the eighth century BC, and where the Roman Emperor Nero bought his way to victory was rediscovered by German archaeologists with the help of radar technology, after being lost f... |
25 July 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Well, puzzles are back in fashion... because there are not too many casual games that have nice graphics... well, at least not the graphics that I like.This week's game is called Heroes of Hellas and for some reason, the majority of puzzles I see have at their base Greek Mythology. I know that it's a very n... |
20 October 2007
03:40 GMT |
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The Tomb Raider series has had its ups and downs, but mostly downs recently. However, with the release of Tomb Raider Legend, people started to like the posh British adventurer once more and before Anniversary was announced, fans and newcomers alike were already hooked. As the title hasn't been announced for the... |
8 June 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Internet Gaming Gate has a new 3D MMORPG for all you PC gamers out there, called 'Gods War.' This Hellenistic MMORPG has been kept a secret for quite some time over at IGG, a company that has made tremendous efforts of coming up with a compelling MMORPG without saying a word about it. Basically, Gods War O... |
31 May 2007
08:56 GMT |
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Google included a new set of improvements in Maps, the online service that allows users to view satellite imagery straight from a web-based interface. Among other countries, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan and Greece are now offering some high-resolution photos with their streets captured straight from satellites. The pack of... |
7 May 2007
02:48 GMT |
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This has to be the most outrageous piece of news I'll ever be writing in my life. I'm careful so that my hands don't tremble when writing about this. At the UK launch party of God of War II for the PS2, Sony thought to give an extra appetizer to the ones present by encouraging them to eat offal from a... |
30 April 2007
06:33 GMT |
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When talking about the labyrinth, the most common concept is that of the famous palace from Knossos belonging to king Minos of Crete, built by the legendary Daedalus, who escaped from captivity together with his son Icarus by making themselves wax wings. Archaeologists named the palace "labyrinth" because the buildin... |
7 March 2007
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