Greek air force spokesman Constantinos Grapsas said the blaze is not endangering installations at the Elefsina base _ primarily used by fire-fighting and transport planes.

An architectural dig on an ancient Greek battlefield, returned to in 1880, unearthed a surprising find: a mass grave of Theban soldiers carefully and deliberately buried in pairs. Make that couples.

Anglo-Saxons joined the Byzantine Varangian Guard after the 1066 Norman Conquest, shaping the Byzantine Empire.