A 7.8-magnitude quake lifted the Philippine seabed by 2 meters, leaving coastal families with an unfamiliar shoreline

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the Philippines' southern coast dramatically altered shorelines, causing significant coastal uplift. Beaches vanished, and coral reefs were exposed as the ...
Wall Street Journal

Can a Trip to Greece’s Sacred Ruins Help You Predict the Future?

THE BEAUTY OF travel has always been its unpredictability but, in the Covid era, unpredictable has taken on new meaning. In November 2021, finding myself able to travel again and desperate to escape ...

In 1892, labourers excavating a village at Delphi made a discovery that revealed Greece’s ancient Oracle

In 1892, a massive undertaking known as "the Great Excavation" began to relocate the village of Kastri, clearing the way for ...
iz

Geochemical analysis confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons under the temple at Delphi

The famous priestess of Ancient Greece, known as Pythia, could enter into a prophetic trance under the influence of natural ethylene gas rising from tectonic faults under the temple. This was reported ...
The Atlantic

Delphi: The Locality and Its Legends

WE are inclined, and not without reason, to regard the story of the Greeks, in spite of their many priceless achievements for mankind, as in a sense tragic, after all. Though some of the Hellenic ...