As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress.

Workers installing a radar system ahead of an airport construction project in the town of Kastelli in Crete stumbled on a large architectural monument, one unique for Minoan archaeology. Located at ...

Carved on a disk about the size of a dinner plate was writing in an unknown language. The debate has raged for a century: Is ...

ATHENS, GREECE—ABC News reports that traces of a round building estimated to be 4,000 years old were discovered on a hilltop on the island of Crete during an investigation conducted ahead of the ...

What ever happened to the Minoan civilization? Centered on the island of Crete 15 centuries before Christ, the seagoing Minoans once dominated the commerce and influenced the culture of the eastern ...

The ingenuity, experience, and refined aesthetics of Minoan architects protected the palace from natural disasters and ...

Crete’s sheer size can make deciding where to go a little daunting. This guide can help you decide which side of the island—from its rugged west to its less explored eastern reaches—is right for you.

THERE are few countries where the past and present fuse so completely as they do in Greece. A past that means so much to Western civilization and a present which we recognize at once as being derived ...