were processed to tease out subtle variations in plant water stress, a buried metropolis emerged. The researchers discovered that the crops planted on the land were in different stages of ripening, ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable find with the help of advanced AI that could challenge longstanding beliefs about ...

The Roman Empire lit so many fires that the resulting air pollution cooled the climate in Europe. The finding adds to the evidence that human societies have been affecting Earth’s climate for ...

The Roman Empire is famous for its advanced sanitation — public baths and toilets — but human poop from the region shows that it was rife with parasites. In fact, the empire was infested with ...

What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a ...

In 43 B.C., Mark Antony, the Roman military leader, and his army had to subsist on wild fruit, roots, bark and “animals never tasted before,” the philosopher Plutarch wrote.

Parched landscape reveals crop marks and long lost settlements, says aerial archaeologist Toby Driver. ... Roman villas, Roman forts, prehistoric settlements appear fleetingly in crops." ...