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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...

[...] The tour of the main archaeological sites of Athens normally ends at eh Kerameikos, which visitors reach by walking along the pedestrianised area of Ermou Street. The site owes its name to the fact that here, at the north-west edge of the ancient city, where the deme of Kerameis ("township of Potters") was located (the fairest suburb of the city, according to Thucydides), was the production centre of the Attic pottery that was so famous in ancient times. The porrers' workshops were on the fringes of the valley of the little river Eridanos, which still flows through th...

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...

Η έκθεση "The G.Tsolozidis Collection. Byzantium through the Eyes of a Collector" αποπειράται να παρουσιάσει το βυζαντινό πολιτισμό μέσα από τα μάτια ενός συλλέκτη.