Washington, Oct 8 : A new research has suggested that the soil under the ancient Greek buildings like temples, which honored specific gods and goddesses, held spiritual significance.
According to a report in Discovery News, the finding could help explain why writers like Homer and Plato wrote of “divine soil” and soil that can affect a person’s soul. It may also explain how the ancients selected locations for their sacred buildings.
Athens - Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines cancelled more than 100 domestic and international flights on Wednesday as air- traffic controllers and crews joined a nationwide 24-hour strike against government plans to privatize the airline.
The cancellations will affect flights to European destinations such as London, Rome, Paris and Frankfurt as well as some domestic flights.
Athens/Luxemburg - Greece's finance ministry on Tuesday said that it will guarantee all bank deposits up to 100,000 euros (135,000 dollars), assuring nervous savers across the southern Mediterranean country that their banks were safe.
"We intend to submit the relevant amendment to Parliament really soon and raise the limit from 20,000 to 100,000 euros," National Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis said following a meeting of EU finance ministers in Luxemburg.
Athens - Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines will cancel more than 100 domestic and international flights on Wednesday as air- traffic controllers and crews join a nationwide 24-hour strike against government plans to privatize the airline.
Athens - Greek coastguards Sunday rounded up 101 illegal immigrants in a coordinated operation in the eastern Aegean, officials said.
The migrants, mainly from Afghanistan and Iraq, were dropped on the tourist island of Samos, the island of Farmakonisis and two rocky outcrops by a flotilla of small boats from Turkey, coastguard officials said.
The officers also detained a 30-year-old Turk suspected of smuggling 10 of the immigrants into Greece, state television reported.
People smugglers regularly use the Aegean sea route to transport their human cargoes to Europe.
Athens - Greece's finance ministry on Friday said that it will guarantee all bank deposits, assuring nervous savers across the southern Mediterranean country that their banks were safe.
National Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis said the government was following the Irish lead and taking steps to increase protection afforded to borrowers defaulting on loan payments as higher lending rates squeeze disposable incomes.
"The government is approaching the issue with sensitivity and promoting every feasible measure to help people in a difficult position due to adverse international conditions," he said.
Washington, Oct 8 : A new research has suggested that the soil under the ancient Greek buildings like temples, which honored specific gods and goddesses, held spiritual significance.
Athens - Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines cancelled more than 100 domestic and international flights on Wednesday as air- traffic controllers and crews joined a nationwide 24-hour strike against government plans to privatize the airline.
Athens/Luxemburg - Greece's finance ministry on Tuesday said that it will guarantee all bank deposits up to 100,000 euros (135,000 dollars), assuring nervous savers across the southern Mediterranean country that their banks were safe.
Athens - Greek state carrier Olympic Airlines will cancel more than 100 domestic and international flights on Wednesday as air- traffic controllers and crews join a nationwide 24-hour strike against government plans to privatize the airline.
Athens - Greek coastguards Sunday rounded up 101 illegal immigrants in a coordinated operation in the eastern Aegean, officials said.
