"Akrotiri, which is now fully safe, will attract visitors and boost Greek tourism." The site was closed down in 2005 after its roof collapsed killing a 45-year old Welsh tourist.

A thousand years before the Parthenon, before the great pyramids of Egypt or Stonehenge in today’s England, there was Akrotiri, a city on today’s Santorini that was buried in ash from a ...

Research suggests the Bronze Age Santorini fresco monkeys may depict Indian langurs, revealing connections between Greece and Asia.

A group of journalists leave the archaeological site of prehistoric city of Akrotiri at the volcanic cycladic island of Santorini March 27, 2000. YK Purchase Licensing Rights ...