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 ...

Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big ...

Greek mythology tells how Zeus released two eagles at opposite ends of the world and they met at Delphi. Thus it was considered by the ancient Greeks to be at the very centre of the world. Over time ...

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The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the site of the omphalos, the 'navel of the world'. Blending harmoniously with the superb landscape and charged with sacred ...

Delphi offers one of the most extraordinary, paradoxical and, for many rationalists, embarrassing success stories from ancient Hellas. It was the centre, the omphalos, or navel, of the civilised world ...