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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The difference in ancient paradises reveals a shared human desire for a perfect afterlife, though the details vary ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Itrion, also known as Pasteli today, are essentially just honey and sesame bars and they’re a popular snack in Greece even today! I actually have one right here because I became obsessed with them ...