Archaeologists often talk about builders of ancient cities and places where they found the remains of some famous in the distant past ruler. Many of their discoveries seem boring. However, there are scientists attracting interest in archeology, telling about what our ancestors ate and releasing recipes of forgotten meals. Several years ago, the Italian archaeologist […]

The small island of Mochlos, opposite of homonymous settlement in the east of Crete, about 25 mi from Agios Nikolaos, has tuned down the theory of the collapse of the Minoan Crete after a tsunami caused by a volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini. At the Minoan time the island of Mochlos was connected […]

Early in the morning of July 21, 365, a wave of a powerful earthquake originated somewhere between Paphos and Kourion, about 22 miles southwest of the Aphrodite stone, where is a boundary of African and European continental plates, and passed throughout the Mediterranean completely demolishing cities, beautiful antiques monuments, and killing thousands of people. Ammianus […]

The inhabitants of Crete identify themselves as a special people, distinct from the Greeks, and this is not uncommon for the islanders. The same perception of themselves as a people being distinct from Anatolian Turks is observed among Turkish Cypriots. And there are justifications for it, historical ones. For example, there are some of them […]

Is it a legend or true story? Let’s say at once – there is no documentary evidence. We shall begin by considering known facts. In 1797 the ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte was 28 years old. He planned to conquer Egypt: it was necessary for the defeat of Britain. From the Red Sea he intended to weaken […]

Cronus (Greek Κρόνος) was one of the Titans born from marriage of the primordial god Uranus (the sky) and the goddess Gaia (the earth) in the ancient Greek mythology. Fearing a prophecy that he would be doomed by his own child, he began to swallow all his offspring. Minos (Greek Μίνως) is the legendary king […]

Ancient palaces are unique evidence of a great and mysterious Minoan civilization that existed on the island during the period of 2700-1400 BC. Palaces found on the island are without equal. Palace of Knossos, of course, is a world class historic site, the most unusual and tremendous of Cretan sights. It has strange architecture, indescribable […]

The fact, that the diet most directly affects the human well-being, was probably known in Egypt and Mesopotamia. But it just so happened that the ancient Greeks left most of all works about what and how to eat. Hippocratic body of writing (a set of works whose authorship is attributed to the “father of medicine”, […]