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Olympie fait partie du volume intitule Les Merveilles des Musees Grecs, ouvrage qui presente au lecteur les tresors inestimables que renferment les principeaux musees de la Grece. Les objets choisis sont commentes par des specialistes qui essayent de les replacer dans leur contexte historique et culturel. En outre sont egalement presentes les sites archeologiques les plus importants abondamment illustres entre autres par des phorographies aeriennes exclusives.

[...]"Patmos treasures of the monastery" contains chapters on the various kinds of works of art housed in the monastery from the byzantine and modern greek popular traditions, and also on the rare manuscripts and valuable editions in the library, the richest in the Aegean. These chapters, each lavishly illustrated, deal with the architecture of the fortress-like complex of the monastery, the outstanding wall paintings and icons, the masterpieces of gold-embroidery and church silver, the exquisite miniatures in the manuscripts, and the other treasures in the library and the...

The purpose of the Museum of Byzantine Culture, as is suggested by is to present the history, art and culture of the Byzantine world in Macedonia, particularly in Thessaloniki, the city that was the most important political, economic, intellectual and artistic centre in the European part of the Byzantine empire after Constantinople.

The Aegean, an integral part of Hellenism for six thousand years, because of its geographical position and physical formation with its hundreds of various-sized islands forming a marvelous unity beginning at the coast of mainland Greece and stretching to the shores of Asia Minor, Crete and Cyprus, has always been a bridge carrying messages from one continent to another, a cradle of civilizations and a source of inspiration and creativity. A Greek sea par excellence, the Aegean founded and defended its own civilization - a civilization that was later bequeathed to the world....

Money has been used throughout time in every aspect and for every reason. Its acquisition has always been one of the main goals of individuals. Coins constitute the basic unit of measuring money. They have been altered and adapted to every change caused by different reasons always conforming to social, economic and historical circumstances. The first coins were made of electrum, a gold-silver alloy, in the end of the 7th century BC in Asia Minor. It was the precious metal that determined the value of a coin whereas its small size made it easy to carry. Later, the symbol...

In 1988, a few months before the Summit Meeting of the EEC in the Grand Master's Palace in Rhodes, I was asked by the then political head of the Ministry of Culture to write a small booklet about the Palace to be distributed to the delegates of the member states of the EEC and the journalists. In the end the booklet became a book and much larger in content and length than had originally been commissioned. It seemed to me hardly possible to present the Palace of the Grand Master without reference to the rest of the medieval city, of which it was always the heart. I must a...