During the First World War, Britain’s Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) operated from airbases in the Northern Aegean against the German alliance countries (known as the Central Powers). One such airbase was located near the village of Prinos, situated on the west coast of Thassos.
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Research carried out by the University of Patras in the Peloponnese has concluded that as long ago as half a million years ago, hominids managed to sail across vast distances of the sea and inhabit the islands of the Aegean. Ancient artefacts excavated on the islands have been dated to the Middle Pleistocene, which predates […]
The dating of a piece of olive tree found on Thirasia moves the dating of the ‘Minoan’ eruption of the volcano a few decades later than previous estimates. The wood was found in the area of Kimissi Thirassia, the prehistoric settlement which lies on a hillside of the island, once connected to Santorini, at least up […]
Two high-status Mycenaean-era tombs have been discovered in the Peloponnese, which belongs to a period known as Late Helladic IIA, which lasted from 1,600 to 1,500 B.C. The more than 3,500-year-old graves contained many gold artefacts, including a gold ring engraved with bulls flanked by sheaves of barley (below), a pendant depicting the Egyptian goddess […]
After major redevelopment, the archaeological site of the Palace of Aigai opened to the public in January 2024. Considered not only to be the biggest but together with the Parthenon, the most significant building of classical Greece, Constructed during the reign of King Philip II (359-336 BC), the father of Alexander the Great, on a […]
A skull found in the Apidima Cave, located in the Peloponnese, Greece, indicates that our human ancestors left Africa far earlier than anthropologists believed. A study published in the Journal Nature reports that the skull, which was originally found in the 1970s in Greece, has now been analysed with the latest techniques and found to […]
It may surprise many to know that lions, generally regarded as African animals, roamed Europe until quite recently in historical terms. Lions symbolised power and wealth to the ancient Greeks and often featured in both art and mythological stories, such as the tale of Heracles and the Nemean lion. When the Persian King Xerxes advanced […]
An ancient Greek cemetery from the Hellenistic period (323 -31 BCE) has been discovered on the island of Thassos, just outside Limenas (Thassos Town), which was in ancient times, and still is, the capital of the island. The site is near the Fourkos Hotel, on the outskirts of the town and was discovered during archaeological […]
An Anglo-Bulgarian expedition announced that in 2017, they discovered the world’s oldest intact shipwreck. The expedition had been exploring the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast when their ROV (remotely operated vehicle) came upon the wreck. The well-preserved 23-metre-long vessel is thought to have been an ancient Greek trading ship and appears to have lain […]
