The first stop is the brand new Amara Hotel, a 5-star hotel-resort surrounded by lush gardens and palm trees on the beaches overlooking Akrotiri ... the mosaics and frescoes, the courtyard and ...

Akrotiri is the name of the village in modern-day Santorini ... Credit: Italian Ministry of Culture As for the painted menus, the detailed frescoes full of food imagery were the ideal advertisement ...

Detail from the “Blue Monkeys” fresco at Akrotiri paintings, Santorini. Credit: Zde/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Ancient frescoes like that of the Greek monkeys on Santorini suggest Europe and ...

They can be seen dominating Minoan frescoes and even prehistoric decorations at Akrotiri, such as the impressive Potnia Theron fresco. This mythical beast features the body of a lion, the head and ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals that encourage some in the state's art community to describe it as ''Maine's Sistine Chapel.'' The murals were painted by ...