A poisonous drug that can be used medicinally or to cause visual hallucinations, black henbane seeds have been documented at ...

A Roman bone found alongside 1,000 black henbane hallucinogenic seeds reveals medical and ritual practices in ancient Roman ...

In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how, under the influence of the first emperors, Rome rapidly developed into one of the greatest capitals of the ancient ...

There is a long history of prescribing exercise as medicine. Recent research suggests that exercise in any form, even at mild ...

Discover ancient diets for glowing skin, from Egyptian almonds to Aztec chia seeds. Beauty secrets that outperform today's ...

Pope Francis’ doctor has recounted the pope's last moments in Italian newspaper interviews. Dr. Sergio Alfieri said the pope ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Roman troops stationed at Hadrian's Wall on the empire's northern frontier rebelled and three different "barbarian" groups ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...