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

At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river ... a gap between modern-day Sicily and mainland Africa to refill the eastern half of the Mediterranean.

Sicily (the large island next to the ‘toe’ of Italy) still forms part of a divide between the ... basin of the Mediterranean should have run into a ridge of higher land connecting modern ...

At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river ... a gap between modern-day Sicily and mainland Africa to refill the eastern half of the Mediterranean.

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Al Manar hosted Naim Qassem for his first lengthy interview as Hezbollah’s secretary-general. Qassem threatened to resume ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

At its peak, the flood discharged about 1,000 times the water of the modern-day Amazon river. At least ... the water surged through a gap between modern-day Sicily and mainland Africa to refill the ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

wrote a scribe of ancient Sumer, portraying a dark time in the land that would become ... have continued to work the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It was in such fabled cities ...

In 1915 the British had wanted the northernmost province around Mosul to go to France, to serve as a buffer between British holdings ... the grain fields, the river life—and no sense of ...