Featuring intricate corridors, vibrant frescoes, and storied ruins, Knossos offers a glimpse into the dawn of European civilization and the rich history of ancient Crete. Image credits ...

A powerful storm revealed odd formations on the seabed off the coast of this African country, unveiling an entirely forgotten ...

AD 79 – its rediscovery was a more gradual process. Vesuvius hit its mark so effectively that all signs of the ancient city had vanished come the medieval era. Architect Domenico Fontana ...

The undeciphered script Linear A, which was used in Crete before the Ancient Greek era (approximately 1200 BC to 600 AD), mostly served the purpose of commercial administration and commodity control.

This ancient invention was discovered on the small, geographically unique Greek island called Antikythera, located between the more popularly known islands of Kythera and Crete. The device was ...

Credit: Edgar Serrano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 2.0 Ancient Greek is the language that was spoken in the broader Greek world approximately from the 9th century BC to the 4th century AD. It should .

In Britain, archaeologists have found Iranian and Egyptian beads, Scandinavian amber items, Aegean metalwork, Cypriot and ...

Chevron has expressed an interest in hydrocarbon exploration off the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, the second ...

In ancient times, the mountaintops of Greece held the shrines and ritual sites of the gods. Now, they’re astonishingly ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Greece's largest island offers every kind of sunshine break, from amped-up all-inclusives to chic urban stays, beach hotels to character-packed mountain hideaways ...