Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Hippocrates is considered the father of traditional Ancient Greek medicine, and his oath is taken by doctors upon graduating all over the world. Credit: Raed Mansour/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 ...

In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

The commercialization of self-care has created a distance between people and authentic healing traditions. Yet within African ...

Paan has been integral to medicine and entertainment in South Asia for millennia. The ancient Sanskrit text on medicine, ...

Since January 2024, dozens of tuberculosis cases have been found around Kansas City. TB may seem like a disease of the ...

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...

Dan started practicing sword swallowing 10 to 12 times a day from 1997 but it wasn’t until four years later that he managed ...

According to Egyptian legend, the goddess Sekhmet was created by Ra, who wanted her to destroy humans who were disobedient to his rule. But Sekhmet had such uncontrollable bloodlust that she almost ...

Imagine an elegant Italian city with a bit of French je ne sais quoi—that city is Turin (or Torino in Italian). Capital of ...

Celebrating its 61st year, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival featured over 280 artists and attracted over 100,000 attendees ...

Chinese New Year is a time for fun and reflection. Also called the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, the holiday ...