Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize, land artist Danae Stratou brings the ancient spirit of Crete alive with Virtuous Spiral — a luminous installation of amphorae that bridges myth, memory, and environment ...

An insider guide to enjoying this iconic Greek island, its dazzling sunsets, clifftop villages and all-encompassing volcano ...

Mythology has driven archaeologists to shatter the hard walls of time and bring long-lost ... and other artifacts take visitors back to Minoan civilization (c.3000 to 1100 BC).

The Prince with the Lilies fresco. Credit: Heraklion Museum And yet, walls did exist in Minoan Crete. Excavations led by Dr. Tsipopoulou in the 1980s in eastern Crete—specifically at Agia Fotia and ...

The Minoan and Eteocretan (and in all probability ... the Bible agrees that my “demolition of the previous partition wall between Greek and Hebrew studies will endure” (London Observer ...

The colourful Minoan wall paintings with transcendental naturalistic compositions and with various techniques, the goddesses with snakes, the rytophorus, the crocus collector, the prince with lilies, ...

likely from the nearby Minoan cemetery at Fourni Hill. These are now housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. Evans investigated vast wall surfaces of the archaeological sites of the area ...

In Minoan Crete, sanctuaries at entrances were common ... suggesting the presence of frescoes on the walls. Finally, in the westernmost section of the palace, part of the façade of a door was ...

A rare gate sanctuary was unearthed, marking the first time such a find has been uncovered at a Minoan palace site ... connected through corridors and featuring remnants of wall paintings with ...

Since the beginning of July, archaeologist Efi Sapouna-Sakellarakis has resumed excavations at the Minoan palace in Archanes ... with solid walls, bright stucco details, frescoes, numerous ...

"Minoan building material, pottery and cups along with food ... Here, he has found other tell-tale signs such as buildings where the walls facing the sea are missing but side walls which could have ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a mysterious 4,000-year-old circular structure on a hilltop that may have been used for ancient Minoan rituals. The structure comprises eight superimposed ...