Phoenicia

The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails - "the bottom of the bottom-feeders," historian Kelly Grovier has written.

An İzmir-based historical research association made replicas of boats and water vessels believed to be nearly 3,000 years old and used in ancient times.

Among the many theories about which civilization first sailed to the Americas and discovered them, there is also the theory that the ancient Phoenicians were the first.

Beirut's National Museum has opened its basement of ancient treasures for the first time in four decades to show the public its stunning array of funerary art, including the world's largest collection of anthropoid sarcophogi.

Crete is the largest island in Greece and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the birthplace of Europe, where myth has it Zeus abducted a Phoenician princess named ‘Europe’ after he transformed into a stunning white bull. Here is a beautiful video of Crete from the air, shot with a drone and lots of love, as George Bougiakas, the videographer writes during his holiday there.

According to Greek mythology Europe was a Phoenician princess abducted by the the Greek god Zeus, after transforming himself into a magnificent white bull. He then took the princess to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to a number of other mythological figures.