Studies on diseases and medical practices in ancient civilizations through archaeology.
An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal ...
Chemical analysis of residue inside a small Roman glass vial has produced the first direct physical evidence that human feces ...
A new study examines how divine sanctuaries fit into medical practice in ancient Mesopotamia. Troels Arbøll analyzed cuneiform prescriptions from ...
Scientists recovered the oldest known genome of Treponema pallidum from human remains dated to about 5,500 years ago in the ...
Shadrach Byfield, a British soldier in the War of 1812, lived a life shaped by injury, work, and public recognition. ...
For decades, human betaherpesviruses 6A and 6B were thought to be relatively recent scientific discoveries, having only been identified in ...
The plague moved through Europe during the medieval period with devastating speed, causing millions of deaths as fleas spread Yersinia ...
A new scientific study has shed light on the everyday health challenges faced by Roman soldiers stationed at Vindolanda, a ...
Archaeologists have sought to understand life in Britain before and during Roman rule, and they have discovered large differences in ...
A newly analyzed Andean trophy head from southern Peru is providing new insight into how ancient societies viewed individuals with ...
