For centuries going back to Leonardo da Vinci, humans have innovated and perfected ways to protect their health amid ...

The myths surrounding mandrake are as old as the first century AD, with mentions in writings by Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides. According to legend, mandrakes would scream when uprooted, and their ...

Ancient texts speak of a strange and valuable metal known as orichalcum. The mystical material was often dismissed as a fantastical invention – until they discovered a large cache of the stuff in the ...

People, and men in particular, have long mixed solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity.

Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.

A thick layer of volcanic mud preserved Pompeii as it was in 79 CE, offering a unique glimpse into life in the Roman Empire.

The necklace featured more than 64 carats of crystal opals.

Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the ...

Access to fossil fuels drove the definition of nations’ sovereignty over submarine continental extensions. Now we need an ...

Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the ...

Forget flowers or fancy wines. These days a good olive oil is as aspirational - and probably more expensive. Historian Pen ...

Pliny the Elder’s lifework, the Natural History, was a colossal monument to his insatiable inquisitiveness: thirty-seven volumes, crammed with facts strip-mined from some two thousand works, covering ...