Crete’s sheer size can make deciding where to go a little daunting. This guide can help you decide which side of the island—from its rugged west to its less explored eastern reaches—is right for you.

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress.

On a summer day in 1908, Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier unearthed what would become one of history’s most tantalizing puzzles. While excavating the ancient Minoan palace of Phaistos in Crete, ...

Plato describes in detail the Temple of Poseidon on Atlantis, which appears to be identical to the Palace of Knossos on the ...

The sun-bleached stones of Greece tell stories that stretch back millennia, but most travelers only skim the surface of this ...

Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in ...