The ancient Egyptians used dried myrtle leaves to treat aches and pains, and Hippocrates, the fourth-century B.C. Greek physician, considered the father of Western medicine, prescribed an extract ...
The stone tools were quite the pull, considering the archaeologists who discovered them simply sifted through the surface and didn’t conduct deep digs. Along with the ancient hand axes ...
Thessaloniki is set to open Greece’s second crematorium following the publication of a presidential decree in the Government Gazette. The crematorium will be located in the city’s first cemetery, ...
The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...
The toxic metal later condensed as dust and settled onto the soil. Listen to Story Levels of lead contamination remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece Researchers detected “a very strong ...
The stone tools were quite the pull, considering the archaeologists who discovered them simply sifted through the surface and didn’t conduct deep digs. Along with the ancient hand axes, the team also ...
The "Our Spring Festival" Chinese New Year Gala took place at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Feb 6, celebrating the inclusion of Spring Festival in UNESCO's Representative List of the ...
Earlier work had pointed to the ancient Yamnaya people of the steppe as the originators of Proto-Indo-European, but a sticking point was that ancient speakers of one extinct branch of Indo-European ...
A major concert, "Organ and Ancient Iranian Instruments," took place at the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in the Russian capital, featuring the Iranian classical music ...