Footprints in sands around the Mediterranean celebrate great civilizations of the Western World. Discover the world of the ancient Egyptians. Cyrene and Leptis Magna - legacies of ancient Greeks and Romans along North African shores. At the heart of this 'crossroads of western civilization', Malta?s Grand Harbour is now a fortified safe haven. For a thousand years Phoenicians were masters of the Mediterranean setting foot on both Sicilian and Sardinian shores. Finally Carthage and Cartagena - the city the Romans called Cartho Nove - 'New Carthage', where echoes of Carthaginian general Hannibal can still be heard.