The Mediterranean Sea today is a critical part of the world's water cycle, but more freshwater evaporates from it than is ...

The Mediterranean has played, and continues to play, a critical role in the formation of our understanding of the past interaction between people and the sea. Maritime archaeological activity lies at ...

One of the ancient submerged cities in the Mediterranean is found in Greece. Stories of submerged cities are as fascinating ...

a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic cultures bordering on the Mediterranean Sea (including the Near East) from antiquity to the time of the Muslim conquests in the seventh century C.E. Six ...

An ancient Phoenician shipwreck found in October off the coast of Murcia, Spain, Mazarrón II, was finally recovered.

Let the past shape your future. In classics & ancient Mediterranean studies at Bucknell, your professors will help you build the analytical skills and perspectives to succeed in law, finance, ...

Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis -- a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago 2.

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Hundreds of intact amphorae - ancient storage jars - believed to ... He added it showed our ancestors were capable of traversing the Mediterranean Sea "without a line of sight to any coast".