Sphakia, A Wild and Secret Side of Crete
High in the Crete White Mountains
Category: crete-history
Gortyn, the hidden secret of Crete
The Magnificent City of Gortyn Crete is a beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea and is known for its stunning landscapes and rich culture. Its history is vast and dates back centuries, but all...
Michael Ventris, who was he?
Michael Ventris was a British architect and linguist who made an extraordinary contribution to the field of archaeology and philology. He is best known for his groundbreaking decipherment of Linear B, an ancient script...
Antikythera – Ancient Greek Computer
By Evangelos Vallianatos Just before Easter 1900, Greek sponge-fishers were on their way to the waters of Tunisia when a violent storm threw their boats to Antikythera, a tiny island located just north of...
Evans, Knossos and the Minoans – Facts and Forgeries
When you look at the advertisements for Crete, usually provided by the Greek tourist board, a huge amount of publicity is given to the ‘great Minoan civilisation’ discovered by Arthur Evans at the turn...
Eleftherios Venizelos, The Great Man of Crete
Birth of Crete – Venizelos Eleftherios Venizelos – The Great Man of Crete Just two years before the Holocaust of Arkadi in 1864, a child was born in Mournies, a village just south of Hania....
Kazantzakis – the grave
Nicos Kazantzakis was probably the greatest author to be born on the island of Crete. His books included Zorba the Greek to Freedom or Death. His book, The Last Temptation, was banned by the...
Old Pictures of Crete
I was asked recently by someone to post some of my old pictures of Crete. Well, this meant digging them out if I could, and I have lost most of them over the years....
The Holocaust of Arkadi -some photographs
For all those of you who have read the article – The Holocaust of Arkadi – either in the Crete Courier or here on this website in the Crete Courier section – Crete Courier...
The Magical Messara Plain
In the whole of the island of Crete, one area that is still magical today as well as being vitally important to the history of Crete is the Messara Plain. The Messara is in...