The decisive victory of Syracuse Greeks over the Carthaginians in the Battle of Himera in 480 BC secured Ancient Greek rule ...

It all starts with the A-B-C’s. Some of the artifacts featured in the freshly renovated and reimagined Eastern Mediterranean Gallery at the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology include small ...

People living in ancient Eastern Arabia appear to have developed resistance to malaria following the appearance of agriculture in the region around five thousand years ago, a new study reveals. DNA ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Messinian Salinity Crisis caused the Mediterranean Sea to be cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporate into an expanse of salt deposits.

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.

Credit: Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20355-9 The eastern Mediterranean Sea, a large basin surrounded by ancient cultural sites, is also a climatology hot spot.

Journal Reference: Martiniano et al. Ancient genomes illuminate eastern Arabian population history and adaptation against malaria. Cell Genomics, 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100507 ...