The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Understanding the acceleration of human impacts on the environment is key to addressing the complex planetary and social ...

The interactive map created by the University of Cambridge uses coroners' reports from 1300 and 1340 A.D. to determine where, ...

Construction workers dug inside a museum in Croatia and stumbled upon the remnants of a historic structure. Take a look.

This tiny island is just a short ferry ride away from Mykonos, but despite its beauty, it receives hardly any of the tourists ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Rowe, as quoted by Atlas Obscura, believes that during the Middle Ages "in general, Black skin was equated with ugliness, barbarism and paganism," and in the medieval Mediterranean slave trade, which ...

This close regional cooperation on water issues builds on previous conferences, such as the Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Water, held at the Dead Sea, Jordan, in December 2008, and the ...

Wickham corrects this distorted view with specific regard to the medieval Mediterranean. He also reassesses precapitalist economies in general, and thus our whole way of looking at economies in ...

10 Kitchen Design Upgrades Realtors Say Are Worth the Investment Delta jet's near miss with military aircraft near DCA reignites safety concerns Economic turbulence shakes US airlines as travel ...

Britain is set to be hotter than the Mediterranean this week with March predicted to be the sunniest for 115 years. Temperatures are expected to reach a scorching 20C in southern England on ...