A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

All of history converged upon that sea, most often by way of the great streams that fed it. There it is that archeological research is continually pushing back the curtain of time, revealing to us ...

Chris Wickham is one of the best-known Marxist historians of the Middle Ages. In his book The Donkey and the Boat, he offers an ambitious account of the internal dynamics of the precapitalist ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep trough on its ...

A new archaeological discovery challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians ...

The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, economy, and culture. But how did this tree, originally a wild species ...

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