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Wanderlust Greece
THE ARCHIVE
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Where the Earth Still Breathes Fire | Unearthing the Volcanic Landscapes of Greece
The African plate is moving north. It has been moving north for approximately four million…
Aegina | The Island That Minted the First Coin and Produced the Heroes of Troy
The three judges of the dead in Hades were Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus. The Hades…
Halkidiki | Three Fingers, Three Frequencies
Before dawn on the Holy Mountain, a monk walks the length of a wooden beam…
Epidaurus | The Sanctuary Where the Theater Was Part of the Cure
The theater at Epidaurus is the most acoustically perfect ancient theater surviving anywhere in the…
The Greek Wilderness | What Survived and Why
The wilderness of Greece was not preserved by planning. It was preserved by accident, by…
Sparta | The City That Invented Itself and the World That Believed It
Almost everything we know about Sparta was written by people who were not Spartans. This…