This week we tackle Cyprus, Malta and the islands of Tunisia. Area: 9251 sq km Coastline: 782 km Highest point: 1952m (Olympus) Population: 953,737 Visitor capacity: 126,380 (700 hotels, 10 ...

Denis Villeneuve hasn’t made the trip to shoot on the Mediterranean islands of Malta yet. But if Malta’s film commissioner ...

Evidence reveals that people reached Malta 8,500 years ago. Hunter-gatherers made the long trip there 1,000 years before agricultural societies arrived. Read the paper: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages ...

Cyprus and Malta both heavily dependent on the tourism sector. Two of the countries examined straight away were Cyprus and Malta, located in the eastern and central Mediterranean Sea respectively, and ...

FT energy editor David Sheppard uses maps of the eastern Mediterranean to explain why there is such interest in gas deposits. The Turkish exploration vessels searching for them are not using ...

Geographically, Malta comprises an archipelago of islands strategically located in the central Mediterranean Sea. The three main islands – Malta Island, Gozo, and Comino – each possess their ...

A Cyprus policeman ropes down from a hovering helicopter to the sea surface during a joint Cyprus-U.S. search and rescue exercise off the east Mediterranean island s southern coast on Oct. 16, 2015.

Exploratory drilling near the coasts of Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey has unearthed vast reserves of natural gas. Competition over the rights to tap those resources is compounding ...