For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no ...

Pliny The Elder once wrote of elephants: "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." Elephants being ...

It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian ...

The Silk Road, that network of trade routes connecting the East to the West and synonymous with the Chinese civilisation, is ...

Nov 16, 2019; Nashville, TN, USA; Kentucky Wildcats fans carry a beer cup chain to the front row during the second half ...

These are mistletoe plants. Aristotle (383-322 BC) thought these growths just appeared out of nowhere. But one of his ...

Explore how ancient philosophers and writers viewed vacations and breaks, their potential health benefits, and the criticisms ...

While many of us will use our holidays to rest and recover, others will need to, or choose to, work this festive season.

Holidays often served as a means to rejuvenate physical and mental well-being. Roman jurist Pliny the Younger documented such ...

This usually meant moving from one climate to another, hoping this would help. In one of his letters, the Roman writer and jurist Pliny the Younger (1st-2nd century AD) writes about how he tried to ...

Academics have spent centuries debating over the real date on which Vesuvius decimated Pompeii. Now, the park itself has ...