Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...

Traveling throughout the Middle East and North Africa is often described as a journey through the origins of civilizations.

Andrew Kenrick received funding from the Consortium for the Humanities & the Arts South-East England (CHASE). Gladiator II opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city in the north African ...

In ancient Greek and Roman legend, the Pillars of Hercules –marking the edge of the known world – were mighty columns that once stood either side of the strait where the Mediterranean Sea meets the ...