Know’st thou the land where the lemon trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle ...

CU Boulder Mediterranean Studies Group fosters study of Western history as a process involving Islamic, Christian and Jewish societies and cultures Scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder are ...

The Maghreb—spanning the Sahara’s edge and the Mediterranean’s vast environmental zone—has long served as a geographic crossroads. With its proximity to Europe and a climate fostering cultural ...

The Maghreb, where the Sahara meets the Mediterranean, has always been more than a borderland. With its strategic location near Europe and climate suited for settlement, it has served as a key passage ...

Europe is often thought of today as a center of cultural and technological advancement. Brian Catlos would tell you that such important advancements actually began centuries ago in the Mediterranean ...

Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the earliest known farming society in northwest Africa – a finding that reshapes our understanding of Mediterranean history. The region, known as the Maghreb, ...

Evidence discovered in a cave on Malta indicates hunter-gatherers visited the picturesque Mediterranean island long before they began farming on mainland Europe. If true, the 8,500-year-old ...

A 16th-century chart of Europe and North Africa. Photo: Luis Texieira, Portolan Chart, Lisbon, ca. 1600 via Wikimedia Commons War, poverty, persecution and human trafficking have driven people to ...

Prof. Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci's latest publication, A Mediterranean History of Modern Art: Tension between History and Metahistory (Volume 1), builds upon the author's critical scholarship on modern ...