Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean ... carried out in dugout canoes without sails, would have been harrowing: a 60-mile (100 km) passage over open water at a grueling pace of ...