After housing the lepers of Greece for hundreds of years, the colony on the island o... ...d health institution was the first of its kind in Greece . Closed in 1957, the leper colony has now long si...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/05/Behind-the-Gates-of-Chios-Abandoned-Leper-Colony/
The Greek Island of Ikaria got its name from Icarus, who flew too close to the sun. But what sets this island apart is the fact that its inhabitants live an average of ten years longer than the rest of Europe. Scientists...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/08/The-Greek-Island-of-Old-Age/
Zeus must've been really angry! Ph... ...nce of 70 lightning over Ikaria Island, Greece : Fire in the sky! This is a phot...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/10/lightnings-over-greece/
We don't talk a lot about politi... ...Neatorama, but surely you've heard that Greece is in a big economic trouble that threatens the v... ...'s going on there? Russell Shorto visited Athens, Greece and wrote this intriguing story over at... ...iving today: By ma...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/14/how-the-greeks-are-living-now/
Earlier this month was National Sisters Day, which got me thinking about famous sibling duos. I thought it would be fun to share a list of the most famous of these sister pairings, but to be fair, there are so many famou...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/25/4-famous-sets-of-sisters-who-changed-history/
Poor Greece . First it was the whole debt crisis, then came th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/08/carpet-of-frogs-plague-greece/
A team of archaeologists on the Greek island of Crete found a tool way older than what they expected to find. Thomas Strasser of the University of Providence and his crew hoped to find artifacts dating back as far as 11,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/19/primitive-humans-were-seafarers/
An unusually frank art exhibition has opened in At... ...em to be modified. Or perhaps the legal code of Greece
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/11/the-sex-life-of-ancient-greece-on-display/[YouTube - Link] I'm sure most of you know at least something about the mysterious Antikythera Mechanism that was found at the bottom of the sea in 1901 near the island of Antikythera (from where the device took its n...
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/12/14/working-antikythera-model/
