Since the Bronze Age, for about 5,000 years, olives have been the indispensable food of sailors in the Mediterranean.

Divers just uncovered a medieval shipwreck while exploring the waters near Besmi Island, just off the coast of southeastern ...

Greek myth states that the region near Asini was first populated by the Dryopes, an ancient tribe driven out by Hercules.

A Punic necropolis dating back to the 4th or 3rd century BC has been discovered in Sestu, Sardinia, during construction work.

Excavations have revealed 35 pre-Roman pit burials, covered in amphorae and arranged in an alternating neck and tip formation. According to the Superintendence, the necropolis was discovered ...

Their problem was amphorae. They needed millions of the curvy clay jars to ship wine, olive oil, and fish sauce around the empire, and often they didn’t recycle their empties. Sometimes they ...