The Curious Case of Pyramid Peppermint
Was peppermint actually found in ancient Egyptian pyramids? Retailers of peppermint products like to say so. What’s the truth, and where did this factoid come from?
No One Thought to Ask the Fruits: Revealing Philistines’ Traditions
June 2024 | Vol. 12.6 By Suembikya Frumin The Philistines (ca. 1200-604 BCE) left no textual sources for understanding their religion, and its study has traditionally been based on
The Wheat From the Chaff: What We Can Learn From Studying Plants in Antiquity
December 2023 | Vol. 11.12 By Jennifer Ramsay Plants are a fundamental part of human’s evolutionary history and undoubtedly, we would not exist without them. Plants provide us wi
Oil, Wine, and People: A Mediterranean Triad
january 2023 | Vol. 11.1 By Catherine E. Pratt Olive oil and wine are integrated into the daily lives and seasonal rhythms of people living in modern Greece. Perhaps even more stri
Medieval Sugar Production in the Southern Levant: A Sweet Story
September 2022 | Vol. 10.9 By Richard Jones The arrival of sugar into the Near East is well known in outline: the technical ability to make a crude crystalline sweet from sugar can
Ancient Egyptian Food Prohibitions
August 2022 | Vol. 10.8 By Youri Volokhine The topic of food prohibitions in ancient Egypt may be viewed from two perspectives, the Egyptian theological view about licit or illicit
The Medico-Magical Squill
January 2022 | Vol. 10.1 By Maddalena Rumor Penetrating the deepest meaning of a word allows our brain not only to make sense of the idea it conveys, but also to disentangle relate