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Smashing a pomegranate on New Year’s Day is an Ancient Greek custom that continues to this day as the fruit is considered a symbol of good fortune.

The pomegranate is deeply embedded in human history. For thousands of years, it has been a vital food and medicine for people in many...

Fossilized olive leaves from a tree that was alive 60,000 years ago on the island of Thira (the modern Santorini) are immortalized in the...

The Patriarchal Monastery of Agia Triada Tsagarolon (Holy Trinity), located on the Akrotiri Peninsula fn the island of Crete, was built in the seventeenth...

The innate desire to look good has been a part of the human experience since before recorded history. The people of Bronze Age Greece...

A skeleton of a man who was a victim of the Santorini volcano along with his dog were unearthed recently by archaeologists in Turkey....

The Minoans were a remarkable people with a civilization far advanced for its time in many ways with artwork and palaces replete with riches...

The Minoan civilization was one of the most prominent civilizations in the Bronze Age. This was also the era in which the Greeks first...

A Bronze Age settlement and an elegant Roman bath complex were recently unearthed at the site of ancient Corinth. The excavation at Chiliomodi, Corinth not...

Many would think that souvlaki is a type of street food originating from the many years of Ottoman rule in Greece, but this is not true.