Achoo fly? One Greek woman’s close encounter with a family of sheep bot flies is nothing to sneeze at. It all started next to a field of grazing sheep in Greece, where an unidentified 58-year-old was working outdoors in the dry September heat. She “noticed numerous flies swarming around her face,” according to a new … Read more
A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected price at a Danish auction house on March 1. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics was hammered down for $179,920 excluding buyer’s premium at Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers’ online sale. The piece had been … Read more
So-called “golden” visas enjoyed a boom in popularity among America’s wealthiest over the past year. Mo Bennis, an associate vice president at Arton Capital, a global financial advisory and consultancy firm, told Fox News Digital that many Americans realized these special visas represent “the ultimate insurance policy against uncertainty.” Bennis shared the top five destinations his … Read more
The heavens have opened up. Tourists to the Acropolis in Athens will soon be able to enjoy a sight that hasn’t been visible for a very long time — a clear view of the Parthenon. For the first time in 20 years, the scaffolding will come off the iconic temple to Athena, offering visitors an … Read more
Forget the golden foliage of the Catskills or the cozy cottages of the Adirondacks, the trendiest fall getaway near New York City is…New Haven, Connecticut? According to Skyscanner’s annual Travel Trends report, the New England town is one of the places with the biggest increase in searches over the past 12 months — and the … Read more
Call him Jerk-ules. A tourist has been labeled “disrespectful” after lifting up an ancient chunk of marble for a photo-op in Naxos, Greece, as seen in a concerning Facebook post. “They have crossed the line,” Kiriakos Jr. Boulamatsis, a Naxos resident who took the photo, captioned the post. “Wake up before it’s too late.” The … Read more
It might not be all it’s cracked up to be. Summertime is when many tourists travel to European hotspots like Italy and Greece — but oftentimes the experience people encounter there during the busy season is anything but relaxing. According to Jam Press, 27-year-old Gabriella Barras spent close to $3,000 on a four-day trip to … Read more
Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in transforming reckless Jones-style treasure hunting into the modern science of archaeology we know today. That institute, the German Archaeological Institute at Athens (DAI … Read more
Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is on island time as rumors swirl about a potential new NBA home. The former two-time league MVP, currently at the center of offseason trade rumors, was filmed dancing on a boat in his native Greece in a TikTok video posted Sunday. “Meanwhile in Greece,” Antetokounmpo captioned the post, adding … Read more
Five women who staged a semi-nude photo shoot on a pole outside a “cultural landscape” at 1:30 a.m. while on holiday in Greece have faced court. British dancers Imogen Gunter-Zak, 30, Sharon Randell, 57, Alisha Haddrell, 32, Katie Clark, 40, and a German woman were allegedly filmed swinging around the white post at Corfu’s Old … Read more
According to a recent study, there are many lonely souls in this world. People can feel lonely for any reason at any age — however, those 50 and older are said to be the most lonesome. Where are these desolate people? After studying 29 countries and their loneliness rates — a team of Emory University … Read more
Hold the hummus and pass the camembert. For decades, Americans have been told that eating like the Greeks is the gold standard for good health. But Dr. Michael Aziz, an internist and author of “The Ageless Revolution”, argues that we should have been looking to Paris all along. “The French diet wins in every category,” … Read more
You may feel like your coworkers are illiterate, but the reality is that Americans are reading more, not less. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Americans spent 22.9% more money on recreational books in 2020 than they did in 2019, and time spent reading ticked up at about the same rate. And that’s … Read more
Princess Tatiana has opened up about life after her divorce from Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark, saying she feels as though she lost a “layer of identity.” The former royal, 44, shared some candid thoughts in a post on social media — just weeks after her ex-husband tied the knot with his new wife, … Read more
It’s around the world in 100 cuisines. Naming the world’s best cuisine is going to be divisive — one person’s trash is another’s delicacy. However, travel guide TasteAtlas has taken a shot by analyzing ratings from users, who deemed Greek food the overall best of the top 100 cuisines on the globe. A chicken souvlaki platter … Read more
Go with the flow! Harnessing the power of the spleen — a fist-sized organ near the stomach that stores and filters blood — has been shown to enhance athletic performance. When the spleen contracts, it releases stored red blood cells into the bloodstream, improving oxygen delivery to muscles. Researchers from Greece kept the spleen in … Read more
The blues may hold clues. A researcher in England has identified a bureaucratic fatal flaw in the world’s “Blue Zones” — regions believed to be home to the planet’s populations with the most longevity. The five areas with a sizeable bit of its population living to be 100 or older — Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; … Read more
Georgina Cooper, the British supermodel who rose to fame in the 1990s and was known as London’s “original gap-toothed girl,” has died at the age of 46, The Post can confirm. A friend of fellow ’90s modeling icons like Kate Moss, Cooper passed away while vacationing on the Greek island of Kos only months after … Read more
What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits” a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It consists of “a cotton textile dyed purple which sandwiches one or two layers of a whitish material made mainly of the mineral huntite,” according … Read more
The third time’s the charm. Princess Theodora of Greece finally married American lawyer Matthew Kumar in a lavish Athens wedding after the couple was forced to postpone the ceremony twice. The couple held their long-awaited nuptials at the historic Metropolitan Cathedral in the Greek capital on Saturday, the same church where Theodora’s parents were married … Read more