By Dimitra Mylona The many names of a tuna trap: Θυννείο, Θυννί,   Al-mādhraba Madrague,                                                    Tonnara, Almadraba  A fisherman in Messina, Sicily in 1912, carrying a tuna on his shoulder. The picture by Fred Boissonnas, with its dramatic geometry and vague background, evokes the sense of almost heroic battle between man and tuna, common in coastal mentalities from antiquity to present, all over the world. Image: Fred...

By Roxani Margariti. The blocks that make up this ruined but elegant archway are made of quarried coral, one of the materials we will...

By Roxani Margariti and Dimitra Mylona In our previous post on corals , we followed the convoluted attempts to classify corals,...