A study led by McKenna Litynski, a Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...

A 1,900-year-old Roman glass bottle from Turkey has yielded direct chemical proof of ancient physicians using human feces as ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

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By Ali Kucukgocmen BERGAMA, Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial used to hold perfumes or elixirs, which they ...

Cocaine didn't make its way across the Atlantic until after the Spanish invaded. So how did cocaine end up being found on ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered traces of human excrement in a 1,900-year-old glass vial, which they believe is the ...

The Byzantine Empire made remarkable contributions to medicine and science, even thouth they are not widely known.

Hippocratic physicians introduced the first evidence‑based, ethical approach to diagnosing and treating. But their ...

Ancient Egyptian physicians documented treatments on papyrus, revealing a sophisticated medical system. While most eye treatments involved herbal or mineral compounds, some scholars theorize breast ...

A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients' eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...