More than 100 years after it was first discovered, the town of Gournia is once again redefining the island's past I know a place where there are a lot of old things,” a peasant named George Perakis ...

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The Hesperia Supplement series presents book-length studies in the fields of Greek archaeology, art, language, and history. Originally designed to accommodate extended essays too long for inclusion in ...

On the balmy, northern coast of Crete lies an ancient marvel: the Late Bronze Age town of Gournia. The ruins are expansive, providing the best view in Greece of what a prehistoric town looked like ...

The Lawrence Art Center’s ceramist-in-residence Kyla Strid will be traveling to Gournia, Crete, this week with an archeological team led by Kansas University’s classics professor John Younger to ...

Yet this young woman is one of the leading scientific investigators of the time. She is Miss Harriet Boyd of Haverford, Penn., the discoverer of the buried Cities of Gournia and Vasiliki, in Crete, ...

A University of Kansas professor is part of a research team in eastern Crete that has identified the most complete existing record of a prehistoric Greek pottery workshop. John Younger, professor of ...

Located southeast of the Greek mainland, the island of Crete may be best known as a popular holiday destination. But Greenwich resident Caroline Morgan is spending the summer in Greece with an eye on ...

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Just outside the city lie the ruins of Knossos, the largest Minoan palace ever built. The palace visible today was built at the height of Minoan power around 1700 B.C.E. Frescoes and fragments of ...