Scientists confirm a massive flood rapidly refilled the Mediterranean, drastically reshaping landscapes and altering ...

Evidence of the Zanclean Deluge, the ancient megaflood that transformed the Mediterranean Sea into what it is now, was ...

The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon dwarfing any other known floods in Earth's history," an ...

Expertise: Archaeology and history of ancient and late antique Christianity; material culture and religions of eastern Mediterranean and the Near East; Monasticism in Eastern Mediterranean world; ...

His work centers on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations and ethno-religious identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic World, and the history of the pre-Modern Mediterranean. In addition to many ...

The Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies offers courses in the cultures, languages, literatures, history, and archaeology of ancient Greece and ancient Rome and the global and ...

Millions of years ago, an unprecedented geological event drastically transformed the Mediterranean landscape. During the ...

Let the past shape your future. In classics & ancient Mediterranean studies at Bucknell, your professors will help you build the analytical skills and perspectives to succeed in law, finance, ...

We are using state-of-the-art techniques to study dwarf mammal fossils. This is giving us accurate dates for when dwarf elephants and dwarf deer lived on Mediterranean islands. We will then be able to ...