The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

Modern day obsessions with healthy eating and fat-free foods for fitness is not new; it goes back to the ancient Greeks and ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

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From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

The decorated plaster was found dumped in a large pit at a London development site that has previously yielded other ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the group. It’s the first time a near-complete skull has been definitively linked ...

In medieval Europe, upper-class women often relied on wet nurses to feed their children. This practice, rooted in ancient Greek and Roman medicine, reveals much about class, gender, and health in ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome, and dangerous by modern standards. Without formal medical regulations, ...