Disguised as dockers, two men darted across the no-go zone around the harbour and cut through the wire. They slipped on to the quayside, where enemy vessels bobbed in the dark. Their rucksacks were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For half an hour or so, as we headed up the steepest part of Crete’s Rouvas Gorge, the canyon’s walls closed in ...

Matthew Sears is an associate professor of classics and ancient history at the University of New Brunswick. Crete, Greece’s southernmost region and largest island, should be on everyone’s bucket list.

Many wonders are described in ancient Greek stories, but few figures stand out as boldly as Talos, the giant made of shining bronze. He was neither human nor god but something in between, a creation ...

Crete is an Island roughly the size and shape of Long Island that lies approximately halfway between the Peloponnese and the coast of North Africa. Steep mountains, some rising two thousand meters, ...

I am in a hill-top kafenion bar in north-eastern Crete. The heat is dry, and the light on the stones is the colour of straw. Cicadas are clicking their back legs together like knitting needles. Geckos ...