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

Olives have a deep-rooted history in the Mediterranean, where they've been cultivated for thousands of years and are central to the culinary traditions of ancient Greece, Rome, and beyond.

Dafna Langgut, head of Tel Aviv University’s Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Ancient Environments, which specializes in microscopic identification of plant remains, said that the wild olive ...

but also crushed olives to make olive oil. They used this for cooking, in oil lamps and cosmetics. Men and women usually ate separately in ancient Greece. Rich people always ate at home - only ...

“We witnessed increased settler violence, including the burning of ancient trees and theft of both olives and young saplings,” said Aya Gazawi Faour, co-founder of the Palestinian olive oil ...