We think nothing of flushing a toilet and getting rid of human waste. One pull on the handle and the job's taken care of. But ...

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

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery ...

Near the Bailey Bridge, about 10 minutes up the road from Mount Currie, archeologists and Lil'wat Nation community members are reshaping what collaborative research can look like.

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

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

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

Uttar Pradesh News: KGMU Develops Patented Infant Urine Collection Device To Improve Pediatric Diagnostics Doctors and engineers at King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, have developed ...

The supplies include a variety of containers, including several ancient “urine flasks” used to collect patients’ pee for testing. The 16th-century dump was originally excavated in 2021.

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary by replacing missing heads, arms, and hands with existing fragments or ...