dramatic sea-level drop or a slower, brine-filled process. This breakthrough offers new insight into the ancient forces that shaped the Mediterranean, helping scientists piece together the puzzle ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

During a search conducted last year between Oct. 7 and 11, a team of underwater archaeologists unearthed a sweeping port in the ancient Mediterranean city of Asini (known in historical records as ...

Outside of Europe, Egypt was known for its complex societies in the same time period, but the western coast of the Mediterranean Sea was long thought of as an “empty land,” void of permanent ...

The ancient studies program acknowledges the importance of ... a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic cultures bordering on the Mediterranean Sea (including the Near East) from antiquity to the ...

The Mediterranean has a long and storied past, and this newly-discovered port has led to a surprising breakthrough in Ancient Greece.

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 ...

Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep ...

When was Ancient Greece? How did ancient Greece ... They lived in mainland Greece and the Greek islands, scattered around the Mediterranean Sea. People have been living in Greece for over 40,000 ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb ... is the first direct evidence of trans-Mediterranean sea voyaging during this time, although archaeological finds have hinted ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...