A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of ...

Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

Professionals collected faeces for fertiliser and urine for cloth processing from domestic and public latrines and cesspits. Chamber pots were also used, which could later be dumped in cesspits.

The Zabo farming system is an ingenious approach primarily used in Kikruma village of Nagaland for sustainable agriculture ...

Okay, Miguel said. Fine, and he started to walk away. Angel, in agony, screamed: DON’T GO!

EMERGING from a carpet shop in Iran’s beautiful and ancient city of Esfahan, I was engulfed by a group of jostling young men.

Some bats in China aren't just hanging around; they're hiding seriously concerning secrets. Phys.org reports researchers have ...

There’s something eerie, yet beautiful, about sinkholes, and visiting Musfur Sinkhole is one of the top free things to do in ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...