When their astonishing ruins were excavated in the 19th century, the Minoans were named after the mythical king Minos of Greek legends, who kept a Minotaur in a labyrinth under his palace at ...

Greece has some true hidden gems when it comes to its ancient villages. Tourism has yet to spoil these towns that are steeped in history.

From narrowly avoiding being eaten by his father as a baby to seducing mortal women as a swan or a bull, there were some ...

The excavator of Minos' palace at Knossos, who so dramatically found the key to the riddle of pre-classical Greece, has himself taken the lead in tracing the influence of the Minoan civilisation ...

The unique ancient Greek board game that was discovered at the Knossos Palace on Crete shows that the ancients had a penchant for leisurely games ...

They didn't live on mainland Greece but on the nearby island of Crete, between 2200BC and 1450BC. They were known as the Minoans after their legendary king, Minos. Image caption, This is the Great ...

Plenty of aspects of Greek mythology differ strongly from contemporary ... revolves around the ancient maze the inventor ...

American movie stars Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have officially become citizens of Greece, the country's prime minister has announced. The couple posed for a picture with their new passports ...

ATHENS, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Greece has set more ambitious targets for expanding solar and wind power to cut greenhouse emissions by 2030 under a revised energy and climate plan presented on Friday.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has cautioned against proposals to outsource EU asylum policy to ...

Match ends, England 1, Greece 2. Goal! England 1, Greece 2. Vangelis Pavlidis (Greece) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Dimitris Pelkas.