ATHENS — If Greek islands were movie stars, Crete would have to be Garbo: seductive, timeless, but also stubborn and, in the end, inscrutable. Is that deliberate, or just a product of geography and ...

In early July of 1908, Luigi Pernier was heading an archaeological mission to Crete. One evening, the Italian was writing a letter to his superiors when he was interrupted by the arrival of Zacharias ...

Some people up here have never seen the ocean,” Kostas says as we enter a village called Apladiana. He points to its roadside name sign; it is pocked with bullet holes. “See that?” he says. “It tells ...

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