Minos

Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni issued a statement on Friday regarding her personal life, following reports that she is separated from her husband, Minos Matsas.

Culture Minister Olga Kefalogianni has issued a statement in which she talks about a crisis in her marriage to Minoa Matsa.

As she says, she is experiencing difficult times and at this stage, her main concern is her children.

A 3,600-year-old bronze dagger, believed to be from the Minoan civilization, has been unearthed off the coast of Kumluca in Antalya, marking a major archaeological discovery. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy emphasized the significance of the discovery, calling it one of the most important finds in the history of underwater archaeology.

The Palace of Knossos, the seat of the legendary King Minos on the southern island of Crete, has received visitors to the tune of more than 5,000 daily since early August.

The traffic in the area is at its peak, with the chief warden of the palace, Nikos Papadakis, telling the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that during August, the number of visitors can exceed 200,000.

Minos Zombanakis, a Cretan who became an influential international banker, died at 92 Saturday following a long illness.

He was born in 1926 at Kalyves, a village near the Greek city of Chania, the second of a farmer's seven children.

Zombanakis entered the University of Athens in 1943, during the German occupation, but never got his undergraduate degree.

June was an electric month for Greece, as the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) recorded 93,580 electrostatic discharges, most of which were lightning strikes, across the country.

Clouds gather over the port of Nafplio in the northern Peloponnese on Saturday. A weather system dubbed 'Minos' will hit much of the country over the weekend, bringing rain, thunder and hail. Downpours have already caused flooding and power outages in parts of Attica and northern Greece. The wet weather is expected to continue through the middle of the week. [Evangelos Bougiotis/ANA-MPA]

A weather system dubbed Minos by Greek meteorologists is bringing rain, storms and hail to many parts of the country this weekend.

Sweeping in from the west, the system was to hit the islands of the Ionian on Friday, bringing light showers and a drop in temperatures, before spreading east across the rest of Greece.

Minos Kyriakou, the founder and owner of the Greek company Antenna Group, which includes TV Prva, TV B92 and Play Radio, has died suddenly at the age of 75.

"It is with deep sorrow that we are were saying goodbye to our beloved Minos, who passed away suddenly, from a heart attack, late in the afternoon," the Kyriakou family announced.

As part of an initiative titled "The Unseen Museum," which casts the spotlight on items owned by Greek museums but hidden from public sight due to a lack of space, the National Archaeological Museum hosts a series of events focusing on an amazing artefact, the Ring of Theseus.