The Formative Mediterranean (Origins to c. 1200 BC)
Covers everything from early human migration and the Neolithic agricultural revolution to the Minoans, Mycenaeans, early Egyptians, and the catastrophic Late Bronze Age collapse.
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It's not every day that you stumble across an ancient Greek cannonball. This was one of a few in what was once a munitions store for a catapult installation defending the walls of Segesta in western Sicily. Segesta by the way is just one of the more remote archaeological sites we have visited on our travels looking for signs of those first inhabitants and societies around the Mediterranean. Why not join us on our explorations?
Eras
The Classical Sea (c. 1200 BC to c. 500 AD)
Covers the rise of the Phoenicians, the Greek city-states, the Hellenistic period, the Carthaginian empire, and the entirety of Roman dominance up to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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From the rise of the Ottoman Empire and Spanish Habsburgs, through the World Wars, to the modern political landscape.
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Events that span thousands of years across the eras.
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Kenchreai, Greece, c 600 BC - 650 AD
Ancient Corinth had two massive, port cities, Kenchreai and Lechaion on either side of the Isthmus of Corinth. The two...
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The World's First Company
Think companies are a modern invention? Think again! The Kaneshite tablets reveal details of, possibly, the world's...
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