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I first caught a glimpse of it through a window at the entrance to the Astir resort's beach club in Vouliagmeni, on Athens' southern coast. That's why the window was there: to allow the public to admire the ancient temple without trying to talk their way into the resort for free on the premise of being archaeology buffs.

The caustic substance that was splashed over a 34-year-old woman during an assault in southern Athens last week was identified at the State General Laboratory as sulphuric acid (vitriol), police sources told state-run news agency ANA-MPA on Monday.

A 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were lightly injured when the car they were in plunged off a pier in Piraeus port early Wednesday morning.

The incident took place at Gate E1 of Akti Vasiliadi, authorities said.

Port officials who arrived at the scene found that both the driver and the passenger managed to emerge from the vehicle that had sank.

A traffic police officer wearing a protective mask checks the documents of a driver at the Elefsina toll station, 30 kilometers west of Athens.

A Greek ship that set off from the Çeşme district of the western İzmir province in Turkey on March 7 and on which 120 out of 383 people have been tested positive for COVID-19 is still waiting on the shores of the Greek city of Piraeus.

Health authorities monitoring the 383 passengers and crew on a ferry that is in quarantine off the coast of Piraeus on Thursday said that the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases on board the vessel has jumped to at least 120 from an initial 20.

The Eleftherios Venizelos passenger ferry is seen anchored off the coast of the Greek capital's port of Piraeus, near Salamina, on Wednesday. Health authorities have confirmed that 20 people on board the ferry have tested positive for Covid-19. The ferry is carrying 383 passengers and crew, including 36 Greeks.

The measures Greece and other countries have taken to contain the spread of Covid-19 have not yet impacted trade in Piraeus, officials involved with business in Greece's main port told Xinhua.

Ships remained moored in ports around much of the country on Monday as winds at sea reached up to 9 Beaufort in the Aegean.

Ships remained moored in ports across much of the country on Monday following problems at sea amid winds reaching up to 9 on the Beaufort scale in the Aegean. 

Authorities imposed a ban on ferries departing from Piraeus for the islands of the Cyclades, Crete and the Dodecanese. Ferries were also banned from leaving the ports of Rafina and Lavrio.