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Modern medicine in ancient Rome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.
The new king: Charles III in dates
AFP, Published on 09/09/2022
» LONDON: Charles III is the longest-serving heir-apparent in British history.
400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast
AFP, Published on 04/08/2022
» QUITO: Inside an old oak barrel, Ecuadoran bioengineer Javier Carvajal found the fungus of fortune: a 400-year-old yeast specimen that he has since managed to resurrect and use to reproduce what is believed to be Latin America's oldest beer.
Wreck of 1830s whaler reveals its secrets
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022
» The shipwreck formally known as No. 15563 has been identified as Industry, the only whaling ship known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.
Climate change threatens Afghanistan's crumbling heritage
AFP, Published on 09/01/2020
» BAMIYAN, Afghanistan: After bearing the brunt of jihadist dynamite and looting by thieves, the archaeological treasures of Bamiyan province are facing a new and possibly more daunting threat - climate change.
Museum explores spooky science behind 'Frankenstein', 'The Mummy'
AFP, Published on 11/10/2019
» LOS ANGELES - What is the spookiest thing about "Frankenstein," "The Mummy" and "Dracula"? The hideous monster? The ancient curse? The sharp fangs?
Scientists unveil appearance of ancient human relative
AFP, Published on 20/09/2019
» JERUSALEM: We know what Neanderthals looked like. Now, thanks to ancient DNA, Israeli scientists have unveiled the appearance of another of our ancient relatives.
Egypt unveils ancient tomb and sarcophagi in Luxor
AFP, Published on 25/11/2018
» LUXOR (EGYPT) - Egypt on Saturday unveiled an ancient tomb, sarcophagi and funerary artifacts discovered in the Theban necropolis of Al-Assasif in the southern city of Luxor.
Brazil's National Museum, Latin America's largest
AFP, Published on 03/09/2018
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's National Museum, ravaged Sunday by a massive fire, is Latin America's largest natural history and anthropology museum, with more than 20 million artefacts and 530,000 titles.
Which came first: the people or the sweet potatoes?
AFP, Published on 13/04/2018
» TAMPA - The bulbous, colorful sweet potato has long been seen as an artifact of mankind's first ocean voyages, ferried from its home in South America all the way to Polynesia centuries ago.