Greece

First cousins were encouraged to marry in ancient Greece: study

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First cousins were encouraged to marry in ancient Greece: study

It’s just another way of “keeping it in the family.” A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The Germany-based institute analyzed 102 different human genomes from Greece’s Bronze Age, and learned that Minoan … Read more

Critics ‘angry’ over Greece’s deal with art collector Leonard Stern

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Critics ‘angry’ over Greece’s deal with art collector Leonard Stern

According to billionaire Leonard Stern, he is doing a “great thing” for art lovers in Greece and America. But some of Greece’s politicians, historians and art scholars beg to differ. At the center of this controversy is an esteemed collection of antiquities from the Cyclade islands, off of the Greek coast, dating back thousands of … Read more