The Mediterranean region, around 230 to 66 million years ago, was previously thought to be made up of numerous small islands. Scientists believed that these islands were unsuitable for large ...

The serene turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea hide ... before people first set foot in the region, are now buried beneath the seafloor. To spot the ancient clues, researchers use a method ...

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate this region ... the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, co-directed by ...