Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

Clay pot cooking, an ancient culinary tradition, is experiencing a resurgence due to its health and environmental benefits. These pots enhance flavor, retain nutrients, and are naturally non-toxic, ...

The remains of 3,500-year-old rice were recently found in Guam — making it the earliest known evidence of rice in Remote Oceania.

Their morning starts at 5 a.m. The father and son don’t speak to each other. They don’t need to. They barely look at each other as they go briskly, almost mechanically, from task to task. Beads of ...

The Nazca lived between 100 B.C. and A.D. 800 in what scientists call a tropical desert. Yet just offshore, the sea teemed ...

Buried in a Pot, Preserved by Time: Ancient Egyptian Skeleton Yields First Full Genome DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton reveals ancestry links between North Africa and the Fertile Crescent.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian.

Made from natural materials such as clay, water jug filters have been used for hundreds of years in every continent by ...

A cooking pot containing the remains of a 4th century BC fish stew are among the artefacts found.

Is it still safe to use a scuffed Dutch oven, or is your beloved pot now doomed for the dumpster? We asked a group of professional chefs and food safety experts to break down the potential health ...

Stone Age people used slow-cooking techniques to extract animal teeth for jewelry, revealing a careful approach to crafting and cooking.