Tag Archives: Knossos

Legendary archaeologist Sinclair Hood, famous for his excavations in Knossos and former director of the British School in Athens passed away on Monday, two weeks short of his 104th birthday. The great British archaeologist and academic, Martin Sinclair Frankland Hood, had a rich research and writing work. Sinclair Hood was …

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They came, saw, danced and left. The village of Archanes was the last place the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited before leaving the island of Crete, concluding their 3-day official visit to Greece. Locals had already started with a slow Pentozali, the traditional Cretan dance, when …

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Greece will raise the entrance fees to its archaeological sites and museums …because the country needs money and some so-called “equivalent measures” to avoid cuts or Value Added Tax hikes.  But also because in some museums visitors have allegedly “asked for the entrance fees to rise.” The hikes are ‘juicy’ …

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That’s a true LOL story Made in Greece! The Culture Ministry has been systematically evading taxes for years or even decades or better say: state institutions have been depriving  the state from tax revenues. The incredible tax evasion was revealed at the museum of the the archaeological site of Knossos …

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A lightning fell in the archaeological site of Knossos in Crete, on Friday morning injuring 6 tourists with one of them reportedly being in critical condition.  According to local media, the lightning fell at 9:30 in the morning near a group of Russian tourists visiting the site. The tourists had …

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