Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy ...

Despite its ancient origins, this tiling trend is just as applicable today. In fact, there is something strikingly modern about the collage-like look of this style. As mosaic artist, Helen Miles, ...

Archaeology & History Scientists Have Recreated the Long-Lost Formula for Ancient Egyptian Blue Pigment It started out as a “fun” museum project, but it could have high-tech applications.

“ALUMEN” is mentioned frequently in the Historia Naturalis of the elder Pliny, and there has been some controversy about its identity. It is probable that the term was used loosely to describe ...

Pliny the Elder likened the smell of luxury garum to that of the finest of perfumes. When the fermentation stage was finished, the malodorous mixture was strained.

The ancient Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who lived in the first century AD, was concerned about the way human beings were abusing Earth. In his work titled Natural History, he wrote: ...

The term zoopharmacognosy — meaning "animal medicine knowledge" — was invented in 1987, but humans have watched animals self-medicate for thousands of years and made medical discoveries along ...

Accessed 14 May 2024. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, BOOK VII. 1 MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS., CHAP. 7.

Russian River Brewing’s cult fave, Pliny the Younger, is celebrating its 20th anniversary, a landmark for a triple IPA that makes an appearance for just two weeks at the brewery each year.

Ms. Albinia’s book takes its title from Pliny the Elder, the Roman historian who used the word “Britannias” for the islands that lay “off to the north-west” extreme of Rome’s empire.

Philosopher Pliny the Elder is known for texts like Natural History (77–79 C.E.) and for his role as a naval and army commander in the Roman Empire. Now, researchers have discovered the remains ...

Born as Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny is best known as the author of Natural History, a sprawling text similar to a present-day encyclopedia.