Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-03-25

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] All sites open, free, on March 25

[02] ANA-MPA work stoppages

[03] Daylight Saving Time

[04] 'Domino of resistance'

[05] 'Myrtis' in Montenegro 

[01] All sites open, free, on March 25

All the above sites will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with free admission for the public, on the March 25 holiday marking the 190th anniversary of the Greek Revolution against Ottoman rule, the announcement said. (ANA-MPA)

It added that the museums and sites will be closed on Monday, March 28. ANA-MPA file photo.

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[02] ANA-MPA work stoppages

The three daily work stoppages are from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, 2:00-5:00 p.m., and from 9:00 p.m. to midnight Thursday.

The work stoppages are in protest of a second 10 percent salary cut decided for ANA-MPA staff, and attempts to classify the national news agency as a "DEKO" (public utilities and organisations).

A special exemption was given by ESIEA for coverage only of the EU summit and reactions during the Thursday and Friday stoppages.

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[03] Daylight Saving Time

At 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, clocks should be set one hour forward to read 4 a.m. The switch to "summer time" will enter into effect in all European Union member countries.

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[04] 'Domino of resistance'

Tsipras, who is also vice-president of the European Parliament's European Left Party, also said in Brussels that there can be no solution when the only concern is to salvage the banks and to put all the weight on the shoulders of the working people.

"The solution can be given only by the peoples, with their own domino of resistance to these catastrophic choices," Tsipras stressed.

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[05] 'Myrtis' in Montenegro

The name 'Myrtis' is borrowed, given to her by scientists that worked on the reconstruction of her features. Following her 'resurrection' nearly 2,500 years after she died of typhoid fever - the plague that also struck down the statesman Pericles and one third of all Athenians at that time - she has also been made a "Millennium Friend" and her picture posted on a website supporting the UN Millennium Goals as a message to the world about disease prevention.

"My death was inevitable. In the 5th century BC we had neither the knowledge nor the means to fight deadly illnesses. However, you, the people of the 21st century, have no excuse. You possess all the necessary means and resources to save the lives of millions of people. To save the lives of millions of children like me who are dying of preventable and curable diseases.

2,500 years after my death, I hope that my message will engage and inspire more people to work and make the Millennium Development Goals a reality," a letter posted next to her picture says.

Orthodontics professor Manolis Papagrigorakis, the man who first conceived the project of reconstructing Myrtis, said his team has already begun working on reconstructions of the faces of a man and woman found in the same mass grave in Kerameikos.

The exhibition "Myrtis: Face to face with the past" is centred on the facial reconstruction by scientists of an 11-year-old Athenian girl that lived and died in ancient Athens during the 5th century BC.

Her bones were discovered in 1994-1995, in a mass grave with another 150 bodies, during work to build the metro station in Kerameikos. Her skull was in an unusually good condition and this inspired Professor Papagrigorakis to enlist the help of specialist scientists from Sweden to recreate her features, using the 'Manchester' facial reconstruction technique.

The final result, wearing a linen dress made especially for the purpose by Greek fashion designer Sophia Kokosalaki based on images of clothing styles of that time, forms the backbone of an exhibition that explores both the various stages of a facial reconstruction. It also exhibits the finds uncovered by archaeologists at Kerameikos, which date around 430-426 B.C. and are linked with the plague that contributed to Athens' defeat from Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars.

Scientists decided to give 'Myrtis' brown eyes and brown hair, arranged in a Classical era style, like the majority of Athenians at that time but stressed that her true colors could only be discovered by expensive DNA analysis that has not yet been carried out.

DNA analysis techniques have, however, found that Myrtis and two other bodies in the mass grave had died of typhoid fever, confirming theories about the historic plague.

(Photo: ANA-MPA/PIXEL)

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