Must See Museums: 10 of Europe's Best Kept Secret Museums - With 2 Greek Entries

Must see museums is not as simple as you think. This is why one of Canada's largest and most prestigious travel guides issued a top 10 of the "Best Hidden" museums in Europe, including two Greek ones!

8 Ways Greek Mythology Is Used In Your Everyday Life

Greek mythology is all around us. Over the course of millennia, heroes gods and monsters of the Greek myths have been household names as examples of good or bad deeds, extreme situations, and impressive events.

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Five Reasons Egypt's Alexandria Was The Ancient Capital of Culture

The cultural impact of Alexandria can only be paralleled with the one of modern London, Paris or New York. And these are the five reasons Egypt's Alexandria was the ancient Capital of Culture.

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Greek Contemporary Art: Is It Worth It?

Did you know that Greece has lately developed its contemporary art wave that drives nuts tourists and foreign art investors? And is that art worth even spending time admiring it?

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True Colors: Exhibition Gives Antiquities Their Shades Back

Unlike what we learned to believe, Greece and Rome's masterpieces were originally full of color. Time and exposure to the elements gradually transformed the once multicolored marbles to the white surfaces we know, which impressed art aficionados during the Renaissance. In the 18th century, the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann -often considered as the father of Art History-  included whiteness as one of Classical Art's leading virtues.

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The Mystery of Cycladic Figurines

Little is known about the people living in the small islands of central Aegean we now called the Cyclades c. 4.000 years ago. Beginning their life in small -and at times fortified- settlements, sailing the sea during their short lifetime, buried in humble graves upon their death, and with no written records to reveal their way of thinking, these islanders'  thoughts, hopes, and dreams remain a mystery. Only silent witness to this lost world's "mind" is the enormous number of marble statues from the Islands, whose minimal design links the ancient to the modern and is considered as the beginning of European art.

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