For more than a century during the final years of the Byzantine Empire, the Greek island of Lesbos was ruled by a Genoese family whose unusual rise began with imperial civil war, political marriage and the shifting balance of...
Turkish arrivals to Chios, Lesbos and Samos surpassed 260,000 between the beginning of 2026 and August 20, according to figures presented in Lesbos, underscoring the volume of travel from Turkey to Greece’s eastern Aegean islands this summer.
The three islands...
While international attention tends to focus on the Pentagon’s declassified files or sightings over the American Southwest, Greece has quietly accumulated its own extensive catalog of UFO sightings—also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs)—rivaling anything held in United States...
Every summer, the historic village of Agia Paraskevi on Lesbos comes alive for one of Greece’s most distinctive traditional celebrations: the Bull Festival (Panigyri tou Tavrou). Combining music, dancing, local cuisine, religious devotion, and centuries-old customs, the festival remains...
Two Dutch nationals bound for Amsterdam were intercepted at the Lesvos airport while attempting to smuggle fossil fragments from the island’s famous Petrified Forest.
The contraband was discovered during a routine baggage check by Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE)...
The story of olive oil from Lesvos, Greece stretches back through centuries of cultivation and production that strongly influenced the island’s economy, environment, and way of life. The unique flavors of the island’s olive oil anchor local cuisine, while...
Modern English, and indeed many languages, borrow a plethora of words from ancient Greek. One particularly interesting word is "lesbian", today used to describe a homosexual woman who is attracted to other women, but the root of the word...
Hellanicus of Lesbos was born around 480 BC on the Greek island of Lesbos. He was one of the earliest and most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century BC, paving the way for some of the great writers...
In the decades leading up to the mid-fifth century BC, the mints of Greece's island of Lesbos produced an extraordinary piece of currency—stamped into small coins made of highly valuable lumps of electrum was the distinct profile of a...
Lesvos remains in turmoil for the third consecutive day as livestock farmers escalate protests against the devastating economic impact of measures taken to combat foot-and-mouth disease.
According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), protesters have occupied the land zone of...
