The Strait of Gibraltar closed, the Mediterranean was isolated and, little by little, it dried up almost completely, turning into a huge salt desert.
With its more than 2.5 million square kilometers, the Mediterranean is, after the Caribbean, the second largest inland sea in the world. For millennia, numerous civilizations have flourished around it, from the Greek to the Roman, the Phoenician, the Egyptian…
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