Crete is more than just a sun-kissed Mediterranean paradise—it’s an island rich in history, culture and natural beauty. As Greece’s largest island, it blends ancient mythology, Venetian and Ottoman ...

It was moments like these that began a love affair with ancient and medieval history, and saw Hughes pursue a successful ...

It was a trip to the British Museum to see the Tutankhamun exhibition when she was just five years old that first ignited ...

Valuable ancient artefacts provide a direct connection to human history by revealing details such as the old ways of life and ...

The island’s earliest traces of human settlements date back from the Early Bronze Age and are believed to be the Phoenicians, ...

Scholars Manage to Crack Only Three Words from Mysterious 4,000-Year-Old Clay Disk With Unknown Script Deciphering writing on ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to ...

El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...

The ancient Minoan palace of Zominthos on Crete, located at a height of 1,200 meters, shows that Minoans were highlanders too ...

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Throughout the Middle Minoan period and down to the fifteenth century (i.e., from about 2000–1450 B.C.) the hub of that culture was Crete Only later was it forced to center itself on Phoenician ...

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 ...