Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...

Punic Necropolis of Puig des Molins on the island of Ibiza. The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. The Phoenician ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea called the Levant ...

The Mediterranean diet traces its roots back to the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean Basin, a region often referred to as “the cradle of society.” Spanning three continents – Europe, Asia, ...

The white frothy waves passed below me in a continuous stream of marshmallow-like consistency. The breezes carried the heat of the semi-arid hills of Hellenic Europe, warming the early morning long ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On the eastern end of ...

When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea called the Levant served as a critical ...