In their first ever call, Russia’s defense chief cautioned the top US general about a large-scale Russian military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to a US official, with tensions running high between the two countries over the escalating war in Ukraine. The call between Chief of Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and […]
Artistic representation of the Gibraltar sill rupture at the end of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. In the final moments of this crisis, the level of the Mediterranean Sea was around 1 km lower than that of the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Pibernat & Garcia-Castellanos The Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis—a major geological event […]
Aerial photograph of the Oued Beht ridge and river, highlighted in color. Credit: Toby Wilkinson Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has discovered the earliest previously unknown farming society from a poorly understood period of northwest African prehistory. This study, published today in Antiquityreveals for the first time the importance of the Maghreb (northwest Africa) in the […]
