Oysters and escargot are recognised as luxury foods around the world – but they were once valued by the lower classes as ...

Less adventurous eaters today see snails as a garden pest, and are quick to point out that freshly shucked oysters are not ...

From mother and baby bonds to linguistic traits, animal studies have helped us understand many of the peculiarities of human ...

That expression means “Greek translation”. In Latin, since it was authors like Plutarch, Pliny the Elder, or Dionysius of Halicarnassus (who was, obviously, from Halicarnassus but lived and worked in ...

There has been a chilling new Pompeii discovery that has revealed the true horror of the volcanic explosion. For one local ...

When I was five I was given an autograph album and asked my mother to christen it with the first entry. This is what she ...

The industry is about 350 years old. There’s a reason Paris is at its heart. See who invented the design label. Where colour trends were born. And how all this affects you.

Salad burnet has a light cucumber flavor and is used in a classic gin drink, Pimm’s Cup, at the Napoleon House in New Orleans ...

Gaius Plinius Secundus, the man we know as Pliny the Elder, was born in Como, Italy, in A.D. 23. By the time he died 56 years later, he had been a cavalry officer, an adviser to emperors and the ...

HABEMUS papam, folks! Yes, in layman’s terms, we have a new pope. And with the pontification of Pope Leo XIV comes the ...

Researchers at Israel identified remains tied to a Roman funerary pig ritual, offering rare insight into Roman military ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...