The coast of Tuscany—once considered wild and remote—remains an insider secret. Lee Marshall finds the good life on this swath of idyllic harbor towns and chic beach resorts, still protected from the ...

, for example the (mostly) sea route from Rome to the ports and riches of the southern coast of India, an enduringly profitable trade bonanza ably described in The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: ...

The international community does not know how long will last the most recent of Zionist's offensives on Gaza, nor it can predict how much damage will be inflicted on the Arab and non-Jewish cultural ...

Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal, located on the western coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It is a historic ...

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it didn't fit his vision of an agrarian slaveocracy, that Black slave ownership ...

From new larger-than-life sea vessels to sleek, river-meandering beauties, here’s a look at what to expect from cruising in 2025, with inputs from Royal Caribbean International – Middle East’s ...

According to the latest theory, the Mediterranean Sea may have been formed by the largest flood in history. Over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean is believed to have broken through ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church replaced this idea of debt cancellation with the concept of plenary indulgence—an ...