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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/icpapachristos/">ioannis_papachristos</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/icpapachristos/55509108066/" title="Colossal Kouros of Samos B/W"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55509108066_0a2a5a5164_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Colossal Kouros of Samos B/W" /></a></p> <p>This is a B/W photograph of the colossal statue of the Samian kouros that was excavated in 1980 at the Hēræon (aka Hēraion or the goddess Hēra’s sanctuary) on Samos Island, Greece. The statue was created in ca. 580–570 BC and originally stood at the North edge of the “Sacred Way”.<br /> <br /> The estimated height of the statue was 15.6–17.2 ft (4.75–5.25 m). It was made of typical Samian grey-white banded marble. The entire statue was painted with red-brown ochre with a rosette on the chest; details (hair, eyes, lips etc.) were painted in other colors. <br /> <br /> An inscription carved on the left thigh reads: <br /> <br /> ΙΣΧΗΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ Ο ΡΗΣΙΟΣ [ Isches, the son of Rhesis, dedicated (this statue) ]. <br /> <br /> The statue is exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Samos.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/icpapachristos/">ioannis_papachristos</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/icpapachristos/55509261419/" title="Colossal Kouros of Samos"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55509261419_7541dd7aa6_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Colossal Kouros of Samos" /></a></p> <p>This is a color photograph of the colossal statue of the Samian kouros that was excavated in 1980 at the Hēræon (aka Hēraion or the goddess Hēra’s sanctuary) on Samos Island, Greece. The statue was created in ca. 580–570 BC and originally stood at the North edge of the “Sacred Way”.<br /> <br /> The estimated height of the statue was 15.6–17.2 ft (4.75–5.25 m). It was made of typical Samian grey-white banded marble. The entire statue was painted with red-brown ochre with a rosette on the chest; details (hair, eyes, lips etc.) were painted in other colors. <br /> <br /> An inscription carved on the left thigh reads: <br /> <br /> ΙΣΧΗΣ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ Ο ΡΗΣΙΟΣ [ Isches, the son of Rhesis, dedicated (this statue) ]. <br /> <br /> The statue is exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Samos.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/scatman_otis/">scatman otis</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/scatman_otis/55509099270/" title="Greece March 2026"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55509099270_e82fd55d2c_m.jpg" width="240" height="181" alt="Greece March 2026" /></a></p> <p>Athens</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55509066080/" title="Greece, Santorini 0A0A8279.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55509066080_2ac0cfa8c7_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Santorini 0A0A8279.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Stopover on ferry trip from Naxos to Heraklion</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55509065715/" title="Greece, Santorini 0A0A8274.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55509065715_51e210cf80_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Santorini 0A0A8274.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Stopover on ferry trip from Naxos to Heraklion</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/82909129@N08/">olimpiamilano</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/82909129@N08/55508301856/" title="Armani Olimpia Milano - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55508301856_da4f7d689f_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Armani Olimpia Milano - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade" /></a></p> <p>Jason Burnell<br /> Crete IBT 2026<br /> Armani Olimpia Milano - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade<br /> Semifinale<br /> Heraklion, 04/09/2026<br /> Foto MarcoBrondi // CIAMILLO-CASTORIA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/airshowpics_net/">airshowpics.net</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/airshowpics_net/55507144607/" title="2026_04_Greece_Diakopto_DSC7629"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55507144607_26f14e26fb_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="2026_04_Greece_Diakopto_DSC7629" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/airshowpics_net/">airshowpics.net</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/airshowpics_net/55507144597/" title="2026_Greece_Athen_20260503_102813"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55507144597_fe23d678de_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="2026_Greece_Athen_20260503_102813" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/82909129@N08/">olimpiamilano</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/82909129@N08/55508030078/" title="Armani Olimpia Milano - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55508030078_8f0d3ab8be_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Armani Olimpia Milano - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade" /></a></p> <p>Alec Peters<br /> Crete IBT 2026<br /> Armani Olimpia Milano - Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade<br /> Semifinale<br /> Heraklion, 04/09/2026<br /> Foto MarcoBrondi // CIAMILLO-CASTORIA</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/paulschw/">rochpaul5</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulschw/55506774637/" title="Santorini Structures"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506774637_b14e2cc6d3_m.jpg" width="240" height="178" alt="Santorini Structures" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pelegrino/">Nick in exsilio</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/55506158502/" title="Artemision bronze"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506158502_878d500185_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Artemision bronze" /></a></p> <p>Recovered from a shipwreck of Cape Artemision 1926-1928. It depicts either Zeus or Poseidon. c460 BC. Inv. Χ. 15161. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pelegrino/">Nick in exsilio</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/55506159627/" title="Bronze statue of a young athlete"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506159627_2c5ccc0f14_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Bronze statue of a young athlete" /></a></p> <p>Found in the sea off Marathon, Attica. The statue probably depicts the winner of a contest. Associated with the school of Praxiteles. c320-330 BC. Inv. X. 15118. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55507084836/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8223.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55507084836_79cb5872b7_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8223.jpg" /></a></p> <p>The island of Naxos, has been previously considered to represent a Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complex that formed during Cenozoic extension of the Aegean Sea. The Naxos meta morphic core complex is interpreted to have formed via crustal thickening, regional meta morphism, and partial melting in a compressional setting, termed the Aegean orog eny, and it was exhumed from the midcrust due to the switch from compression to extension at ca. 15 Ma.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55507086696/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8234.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55507086696_49019e02ab_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8234.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Deformed granite and migmatite in the core of the metamorphic core complex.<br /> <br /> The island of Naxos hosts a metamorphic core complex. The core region consists of highly strained migmatites and gneisses, with intercalated marbles and leucogranites, which are separated from a lower-grade deformed and attenuated sequence of Mesozoic shelf succession (metamorphosed to marbles and schist) by a major ductile shear zone and forming a carapace to the migmatite dome. <br /> <br /> The complex has been previously considered to represent a Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complex that formed during Cenozoic extension of the Aegean Sea. The Naxos metamorphic core complex is now interpreted to have formed via crustal thickening, regional metamorphism, and partial melting in a compressional setting, termed the Aegean orogeny, and it was exhumed from the midcrust due to the switch from compression to extension at ca. 15 Ma.<br /> <br /> In western central Naxos, a largely dismembered sequence of ophiolitic material is composed of hydrothermally altered pillow basalts, serpentinites, and oceanic sediments<br /> <br /> Miocene to Pleistocene sedimentary successions are unconformably laid on top of this mélange, and they are composed of fluvial conglomerates, in some cases with boulders and clasts of a variety of ophiolitic and metamorphic material derived from the footwall.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55506074327/" title="Greece, Naxos PXL_20260518_143323280.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506074327_3e8ff03ed0_m.jpg" width="240" height="181" alt="Greece, Naxos PXL_20260518_143323280.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Marble with shear sense indicators in breakwater at harbour.<br /> <br /> The island of Naxos hosts a metamorphic core complex. The core region consists of highly strained migmatites and gneisses, with intercalated marbles and leucogranites, which are separated from a lower-grade deformed and attenuated sequence of Mesozoic shelf succession (metamorphosed to marbles and schist) by a major ductile shear zone and forming a carapace to the migmatite dome. <br /> <br /> The complex has been previously considered to represent a Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complex that formed during Cenozoic extension of the Aegean Sea. The Naxos metamorphic core complex is now interpreted to have formed via crustal thickening, regional metamorphism, and partial melting in a compressional setting, termed the Aegean orogeny, and it was exhumed from the midcrust due to the switch from compression to extension at ca. 15 Ma.<br /> <br /> In western central Naxos, a largely dismembered sequence of ophiolitic material is composed of hydrothermally altered pillow basalts, serpentinites, and oceanic sediments<br /> <br /> Miocene to Pleistocene sedimentary successions are unconformably laid on top of this mélange, and they are composed of fluvial conglomerates, in some cases with boulders and clasts of a variety of ophiolitic and metamorphic material derived from the footwall.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55507231464/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8158.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55507231464_607a86c81b_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8158.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Looking across the carapace of the metamorphic core complex to the Miocene granodiorite batholith on the west of the island.<br /> <br /> The island of Naxos hosts a metamorphic core complex. The core region consists of highly strained migmatites and gneisses, with intercalated marbles and leucogranites, which are separated from a lower-grade deformed and attenuated sequence of Mesozoic shelf succession (metamorphosed to marbles and schist) by a major ductile shear zone and forming a carapace to the migmatite dome. <br /> <br /> The complex has been previously considered to represent a Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complex that formed during Cenozoic extension of the Aegean Sea. The Naxos metamorphic core complex is now interpreted to have formed via crustal thickening, regional metamorphism, and partial melting in a compressional setting, termed the Aegean orogeny, and it was exhumed from the midcrust due to the switch from compression to extension at ca. 15 Ma.<br /> <br /> In western central Naxos, a largely dismembered sequence of ophiolitic material is composed of hydrothermally altered pillow basalts, serpentinites, and oceanic sediments<br /> <br /> Miocene to Pleistocene sedimentary successions are unconformably laid on top of this mélange, and they are composed of fluvial conglomerates, in some cases with boulders and clasts of a variety of ophiolitic and metamorphic material derived from the footwall.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/ianw1951/">ianw1951</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianw1951/55507180608/" title="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8097.jpg"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55507180608_85e3768dc7_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Greece, Naxos 0A0A8097.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Miocene foliated granodiorite</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pelegrino/">Nick in exsilio</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/55505635942/" title="Jockey of Artemision (detail)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55505635942_e78b59db63_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Jockey of Artemision (detail)" /></a></p> <p>Recovered from a shipwreck of Cape Artemision 1926-1928. 140-150 BC. Inv. X 15177. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/pelegrino/">Nick in exsilio</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/55506638881/" title="Jockey of Artemision (detail)"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506638881_a348c20860_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Jockey of Artemision (detail)" /></a></p> <p>Recovered from a shipwreck of Cape Artemision 1926-1928. 140-150 BC. Inv. X 15177. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/martin-m-miles/">Martin M. Miles</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/martin-m-miles/55506861930/" title="Rio–Antirrio Bridge"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55506861930_2f26fbd2e8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Rio–Antirrio Bridge" /></a></p> <p> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Rio–Antirrio Bridge seen from Nafpaktos<br /> <br /> The bridge crosses the Rion Strait between the Gulf of Corinth and Gulf of Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio on mainland Greece. Its five-span four-pylon cable-stayed portion of length 2,252 m (7,388 ft) is the world's third longest cable-stayed deck; only the decks of the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge in Shaoxing, China and the Millau Viaduct in France are longer.<br /> <br /> The bridge was inaugurated on 7 August 2004, a week before the opening of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Olympic torchbearers were the first to officially cross it.</p>

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