The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together ...

We spent the day exploring some of Mexico’s most beautiful hidden places — from ancient Mayan ruins to secret cenotes and a surprise encounter with wild flamingos. Join us on this journey through ...

When people picture the ancient world, they often imagine ruins behind museum glass. But many of the world’s oldest cities are still alive, loud, and surprisingly ordinary. Streets mapped out ...

Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of Egyptian ...

Starch trapped in ancient tools points to long-term cultivation of the Four Corners potato by Indigenous people of the ...

Valentine’s Day didn’t start with candy hearts or roses — or a Roman fertility festival, though there was one in mid-February ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Spartan general Pausanias lived a life which encapsulated the Ancient Greek city state, killed by his own people for ...

A detailed solve of a complex puzzle box inspired by ancient treasure designs. It walks through observation trial and error and clever tool use as each hidden mechanism gives way and the box finally ...

Prized by the Romans for its hot springs, Bormio is now hoping to capitalise on hosting ski mountaineering’s Olympic debut ...