According to Plato, Atlantis lay just in front of the Pillars of Hercules – what we now call the Strait of Gibraltar – and disappeared around 9000 BC. Advertisement ...

"The Greeks were familiar with volcanic eruptions," he notes. To them, such a fate might have been more dramatic and plausible than the change in sea level that would have accompanied the melting and ...

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea was a very different place than it is today. Plate tectonics had closed the Strait of Gibraltar separating modern-day Spain and Morocco, leaving the ...

Finlayson told The Guardian that the cave is currently about 65 feet (20 meters) above sea level, “so clearly somebody took it up there some time before 40,000 years ago.” ...

The persistent, shallow connection between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea that caused the Messinian salinity crisis may have been sustained by a balance between tectonic uplift and ...