Ancient Rome's greatest threat to food security wasn't the weather but the challenge of getting grain to the capital, ...

Newly published research is providing a fascinating glimpse into how ancient Romans enjoyed their fast food — shedding more light on life in antiquity. In a recent journal article entitled "Urban ...

Snails, ground fava beans, pork and wine were staples of the 2,000-year-old fast-food stalls uncovered in Ancient Pompeii. Ancient ruins in Pompeii, Roman town near modern Naples destroyed and buried ...

If you want to understand an ecosystem, look at what the species within it eat. In studying food webs—how animals and plants in a community are connected through their dietary preferences—ecologists ...

People visit an exhibition of ancient Chinese food culture at the National Historical Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, ...

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...

At first glance, it might seem that archaeology and ecology don't have much in common. One unearths the ancient human past; the other studies the interactions of living organisms. But taking the long ...

Discovering how ancient civilizations ate helps us truly understand what life was like before our time. Sometimes, those insights come from ancient food itself, left behind in traces on used cookware.

Ancient stone structures on the West Coast are helping experts understand more about historic food practices, according to groundbreaking scientific research. In a recent interview with Fox News ...

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rain clouds cover the peaks of the west Maui mountains, one of the wettest places ...

Studying ancient food webs can help scientists reconstruct communities of species, many long extinct, and even use those insights to figure out how modern-day communities might change in the future.