Art historians had long suspected that the name - Greek for "full moon" - could have originated as a nickname for some member of the so-called Macedonian School of painting, based in Thessaloniki.

One the most famous battles in ancient Greek history, The Battle of Marathon, in 490 BC. A painting by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

Turkey plans to build an 8.5-kilometre (5.2-mile) wall on its western border where neighbors Greece and Bulgaria have already erected their own fences, a local governor said.

Greece is planning a major extension of a steel wall along its border with Turkey in 2023 in a move that is being applauded by residents in the border area as well as voters more broadly.

Law & Politics Greek Politician Destroys Art in National Gallery, Claiming ‘Blasphemy’ The museum was forced to close after a far-right MP entered the galleries and threw four works on the ground.

Item 1 of 5 Roya Rasuli, an 18-year-old Afghan migrant artist, draws on a wall at a camp for refugees and migrants, in Thiva, Greece, March 3, 2022. Picture taken March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Costas Baltas ...

The bus damaged multiple windows and a heating structure inside the school's art room. Greece, N. Y. (WHAM) - No one was seriously hurt Thursday morning when a school bus in Greece crashed into an ...

New York City has added another jewel to its glittering cultural crown, and it takes up little more than one medium-size wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You’ll find the wall in the ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister promised Friday to extend an existing wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey as he campaigned for the country’s ...

FERES, Greece >> Greece prevented around 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers, an official said Saturday.