What was the Celtic concept of the afterlife, and why was it so similar to the concept of the Isles of the Blessed from Greek ...
Hypsipyle was the mythical ancient Greek queen of Lemnos who ruled over a matriarchal society after all the men were ...
A pretty mountain village on the Greek island of Crete has been named as one of the United Nation's best and is also where ...
Greece’s highest mountain, Mount Olympus, has 52 peaks and deep gorges. The highest peak, Mytikas is 2,917 m (9,570 ft) and, ...
The settlement of Kastri, on the island of Cythera, south of the Peloponnesian peninsula of the Greek mainland ... who lauded King Minos and Crete in their mythology. Linear B, the Cretan writing ...
Stories of Greek mythology have been around for several ... In one of the most well-known tales, the Greek island of Crete was the site of a mythical battle between Theseus and the half-human ...
Dr Iosif Lazaridis, from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts, and colleagues focussed on burials from the Minoan civilization, which flourished on the island of Crete from 2,600 to 1,100 BC ...