Does it sound too good to be true? For thousands of years, humans used elements of nature to fend off disease and distress. While many science-based studies today have not yet looked at ancient ...

The physicians of ancient Greece described different cancer types, including the hidden and obvious ones, the acquired and ...

As the Egyptian civilization faded, the Greek one emerged around 700 BC. The Greek civilization prevailed until "the end of antiquity" around 600 AD. The Greeks were great philosophers and their ...

The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine more than 2,000 years ago. Although we now have a far more detailed and accurate picture of medicine, the ancient ...

From packed train carriages to busy shopping centers, being crammed together in often poorly ventilated spaces had become so normal that it has taken us a long time to get used to social distancing.

The discovery of plant pollen in a Neanderthal burial site in northern Iraq gave even the most serious archaeologists something to smile about. As they systematically identified the pollen's parent ...

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization that started around 800 BC and existed for approximately 1200 years. It started off in Rome, and grew into one of the largest and most powerful empires in ...

Ancient gray disks loaded with zinc and beeswax found aboard a shipwreck more than 2,000 years old may have been used as medicine for the eyes, researchers say. These new findings shed light on the ...

While using ancient Greek medicine as a source of remedies is problematic, drawing on it to understand the doctor/patient relationship is more straightforward. We still say, “Trust me, I’m a doctor”.

Long before the discovery of antibiotics, germs and anaesthetics the ancient Greeks had many medical practices we could learn from today. Photo / Thinkstock The ancient Greeks are widely seen as ...