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Whether its rare art works or dirt-cheap real-estate, China’s rich are keen on placing their money anywhere else but in China, where the global economic chaos was barely felt.

The new agreement for the concession of the Astir Palace Resort has been signed by main stakeholder National Bank, Greek state privatization fund TAIPED and the preferred bidder, Jermyn Street Real Estate Fund.

Operations at the museums and archaeological sites in Greece are expected to be back to normal as of the first weekend of 2016.

In efforts to bring in much needed revenue and at the same time keep tourists flowing, Rhodes local authorities are taking a daring proposal by a group of young scientists seriously: bringing the mythical Colossus of Rhodes back to life.

The Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands has slammed Gucci’s Instagram project #Guccigram for “humiliating” the Parthenon sculptures.

When they discovered that visitors to Meteora stayed for a single night and still didn’t know what to do, the Kourelis brothers decided it was time to do something about it.

A linguist may have unveiled the mystery behind the famed Phaistos Disc, a 15cm fired clay tablet uncovered in 1908 in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age.

The signing of the new agreement for the sale of the Astir Palace Resort to consortium Jermyn Street Real Estate by National Bank and Greek state privatization fund TAIPED is expected to take place on Wednesday, December 30.

The Greek island of Alonissos in the Northern Sporades, is serious about going “green” with local professionals not ordering plastic bags any more and consumers opting for paper orreusable cloth bags instead.

A team from the Athens-based Museum of Cycladic Art held a fund-raising event at New York’s Public Library last month in order to launch its “traveling suitcases” project aimed at educating youngsters about Aegean art.