Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a ...

“I can’t imagine doing an exhibition about anything other than the refugee crisis,” curator Katerina Gregos told a handful of journalists invited by the Schwarz Foundation to visit the group show “A ...

For the past few years Manolis Mantas and his wife Vasilika, a retired Greek couple, have lived on the frontline of Europe's refugee crisis. Their summer house, which they built on the beautiful Greek ...

The new facility is one of five being built with EU funds. Rights groups have complained that the Samos camp, with its barbed-wire fences and surveillance cameras, is more like a jail. Greece on ...

British tourists are flocking to a historic Greek island that has all the beauty of Mykonos and Crete, without the crowds. TUI says it is seeing a ‘surge’ in bookings to lesser-known islands as ...

Syrians take shelter from the rain in a camp at Samos port The coastguard headquarters in the port of Samos is crowded with UN aid workers, Red Cross staff and an Arabic translator. It's early morning ...

Greece’s coast guard has found the bodies of eight migrants, including six children, who drowned off the island of Samos, authorities said, in the second migrant shipwreck in the Aegean Sea this month ...

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