Poseidon

Actors Alexander Skarsgard and Florence Pugh perform in a scene of "The Little Drummer Girl" at the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio, Thursday.

The Central Archaeological Council (KAS) has refused a request by BBC producers for a one-day permit to film scenes next month at the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio for an upcoming miniseries based on a spy novel by John le Carre.

Restoration work on the western pediment of the Parthenon temple began Thursday as part of the ongoing project to restore and reconstruct monuments on the hill of the Acropolis.

The project, which was recently incorporated in the European Union-backed Partnership Agreement for 2014-20 known as ESPA, has a budget of 5 million euros.

The 480 BC bronze statue of the ancient Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, is displayed in a new exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, on Monday. "Odysseys," a temporary exhibition at the museum, will open to the public next Monday, Oct. 3, as the main commemorative event to celebrate the museum's 150th anniversary. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]

A Russian fighter jet flew within a little more than 3 meters (10 feet) of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft, in what American officials called an unsafe intercept over the Black Sea, the Pentagon said Sept. 7, although Moscow quickly insisted the encounter was within "international rules."

The people in the city center of Cambridge were befuddled as Poseidon and Athena took to the streets as part of a campaign to get children interested in history. When the gods aren’t sightseeing around Cambridge, they perform at the Cambridge Arts Theater as hosts for two shows from the Horrible Histories series where they portray Groovy Greeks.

140 events across dozens of archeological sites and museums around Greece are being held to celebrate the full moon on August 29. Apart from the concerts, theater performances, exhibitions, film screenings and other events there will be admission to all sites free of charge.

Historic fact or stories related on a winter?s night around a camp fire? There?s no end to Istanbul?s extraordinary life A city of 400 legends and 100 fairy tales could only be Istanbul, the mysterious city overlooking the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus Strait and the Golden Horn. Oh, what stories these walls and streets could tell if only we could hear them.