Athens has always been scorching in the summer, but never to current levels. It’s the hottest capital in mainland Europe but witnessed record highs in 2024, a situation that’s becoming the new ...

This infamous Athens brothel was named after Effie Matthews, the building’s reclusive and borderline-mythical owner/operator. In her dealings at 175 Elm St., Miss Matthews seemed to always find ...

In fact, Tsampouraki said, Athens’s volatile history since the crisis is the unlikely key to its revival: “Where there is chaos, there is also creativity.” The city’s popularity with ...

An ancient city dating to between 7,000 and 5,000 B.C.E., Athens is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. During the city's Golden Age, great thinkers, writers and artists, such as ...

Wildfires around Athens under control, Greek officials say. This follows the evacuation of thousands of people earlier this week. Updated on: August 14, 2024 / 12:25 PM EDT / CBS/AFP ...

Athens is about a 10-minute drive from Exit 21 on the New York State Thruway. The drive to the George Washington Bridge takes about two hours, depending on traffic.

In Athens proper, there is no shortage of choice for accommodation. Of the 34 hotels that opened in greater Athens during the pandemic, 26 of them are in the city center.

Athens, 1950s, (Credit: Benaki Museum, Costas Megalokonomou Archives/ Image from Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens by Ioanna Theocharopoulou) ...

The '80s and '90s artwork took the Athens Riviera to new cultural heights. Art historian Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan brought in works from the National Bank of Greece's private collection.

In Agia Paraskevi, one of the villages dotted around Mount Panitha, just 15 miles north of Greece’s capital, Athens, we found a familiar sight: a woman standing in front of a burned house, its ...

Killing nearly a third of the population, an epidemic ripped through Athens in 430 B.C. Historic accounts and new technology are helping identify the true culprit.

For much of its history, Athens was either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war. But in the window between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, from 454 to 430 B.C., the city was at ...