Culture Ministry

Bulgaria's Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov ordered an urgent inspection in the tomb of the Thracian King Seuthes III after a collapse had been reported by the municipality of Kazanlak.

According to local Press TV, the Golyamata Kosmatka Mound, which contains the tomb, collapsed with nearly a meter and 5 cubic metres of soil had been removed from its corridor.

Watching television (98 per cent), reading fiction books (50 per cent), listening to music (90 per cent) and leafing through magazines (55 per cent) are topping the preferences of Romanians when it comes to their domestic culture consumption, according to the findings of a recent' Culture Consumption Barometer 2014. Culture between Global and Local.'

Greece has called on the British government to stop stonewalling the return of the Parthenon Marbles despite a request for negotiations from the United Nations. The stance shown by the U.K. has been described as "clinging on to stolen booty for dear life itself" rather than return the sculptures to their rightful home, a country that is on the brink of economic collapse.

Controversy is growing over the closure of the Kyme Archaeology Museum and Excavation House in ?zmir?s Alia?a district, with municipal authorities saying a new building to be constructed on the site of the present, allegedly unsafe edifice will not continue to host the museum.

Experts examining the findings at an Alexander the Great-era tomb near Amphipolis in the Macedonian region of northern Greece have identified bones from at least five people, the Culture Ministry said Monday.

The remains of at least five people have been found in the Alexander the Great-era tomb at Ancient Amphipolis, the Culture Ministry said on Monday.

According to a statement, the skeletons discovered last year are that of a woman aged around 60, two men aged between 35 and 45, a child and another person whose identity has yet to be discovered because he or she was cremated.

The mayor of Delta, in the northern region of Macedonia, has asked Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis to grant his municipality a bronze statue of Alexander the Great, which was purchased by the Culture Ministry in 1993 and given to City Hall but it has yet to go on public display, it emerged on Wednesday.

The ?Theseus Ring,? a gold signet ring unearthed in the Plaka district of Athens in the 1950s and dating back to the Mycenaean period, went on display on Monday for the first time at the Greek capital?s National Archaeological Museum.

More information about the skeleton found at the Ancient Amphipolis tomb in northern Greece is to be made public by January 20, officials said on Wednesday.

An analysis of a skeleton found in an Alexander-era tomb in Amphipolis, northern Greece, is expected to yield answers in January, the Culture Ministry said on Friday.