According to legend, the magical civilization of Atlantis attained its great prosperity from knowing how to create a material called Oriharukon. Naturally, many other nations asked and even begged for ...

An old stone quarry on the Greek island of Crete which has a network of underground tunnels could be the original site of the ancient Labyrinth, the maze that housed the Minotaur of Greek legend, ...

As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the Labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known. This 3,000-year-old language was discovered on clay tablets excavated in 1900 on the island of ...

7-circuit Cretan labyrinth design. Source: WhataWin/Shutterstock The labyrinth is an analogy for life. It is not a maze or a puzzle to be solved but a path of meaning to be experienced. Its path is ...

Delve into ancient Crete and the Minoan civilization as archaeologists attempt to find the legendary labyrinth of the minotaur. Did this monster of the ancient Greek world really exist and is his ...

Last fall, a good friend and I decided we wanted to go to Greece. But rather than opt for Santorini or Mykonos, we decided to spend a week in Crete. All I knew about the island was what I had learned ...