In 1928, a German architect planned to block the Strait of Gibraltar, drain the Mediterranean and create a new continent called Atlantropa

In 1928, German architect Hermann Sörgel unveiled one of the most ambitious engineering visions ever imagined: Atlantropa, a ...
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Spain and Morocco Are Only 14 km Apart, So Why Has a $200 Billion Strait of Gibraltar Crossing Defeated Engineers, Politicians, and Planners for Centu

The Strait of Gibraltar separates two continents by just 14 kilometers, yet geology, seismic fault lines, 900-meter ocean ...

Morocco’s hidden history: archaeology, DNA and carbon dating rewrite the story of the ancient world

For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of ...