The father of gastronomy is regarded as Archestratus, an ancient Greek poet and philosopher in the mid-4th century BCE ...

The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating ...

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection of previously uncatalogued items. The microscopic morsel was unearthed ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered their emergency plans in case the ...

Bread has been a common staple for many ... and then mixed them in with ancient grains. Again, in order to achieve a baked good that was as authentic as possible, Blackley needed grains that were ...

It’s ancient. Seriously ancient. And it’s back – if it ever went away. The hunt for some seriously good sourdough bread is taking over Cape Breton Island. The Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...