Peloponnese

A 15-year-old school student died on Friday afternoon after being hit by a car on a section of the old national highway near the town of Kalamata, in the southern Peloponnese.

An engraved clay plaque found in Ancient Olympia, believed to be the oldest known extract of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," has made the list of the "Top 10 Discoveries of 2018" of the current issue of Archaeology, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America.

The first online maps displaying "global seismic hazard" include Greece, pointing to a heightened risk of temblors in Attica.

Museums and archaeological sites in Greece have welcomed more visitors in the first seven months of 2018 while revenues have grown, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said in a statement on Monday.

Greece's culture ministry said Tuesday that archaeologists have located the first tangible remains of a lost city that the ancient Greeks believed was first settled by Trojan captives of war after the sack of Troy.

The Isthmus of Corinth, which connects the Peloponnese to mainland Greece, was closed for large vessels on Thursday afternoon after the rocks on one side of the canal gave way, prompting a landslide. The cause of the landslide remained unclear, though state engineers were expected to be dispatched to the area for inspections.

A strong earthquake with magnitude 6.8 struck off the western Greek tourist island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea early Friday, and was felt as far away as Athens, but authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.

The General Secretariat for Civil Protection on Sunday declared several municipalities in mainland Greece to be in a state of emergency after a powerful tropical-type storm pounded the region, causing widespread damage.

A powerful Mediterranean storm brought torrential rain to southern Greece as civil protection services remained on alert across most of the country Saturday despite word that the turbulent weather had lost force as it moved east.

Mediterranean cyclone "Zorbas" shifted deeper into Greece on Saturday afternoon, bringing showers and gale-force winds to Athens, the central and northeastern Peloponnese and Evia, after tearing up trees and disgorging fishing boats and pleasure yachts across the coast of the southern Peloponnese.