A Palestinian farmer recently stumbled upon a 1,500-year-old mosaic dating to the Byzantine era beneath his olive orchard in ...

Photos by Giulia Gerosa for Thrillist Rome is a city of contradictions. It’s a place where an ancient aqueduct slices through a traffic circle, where you can sip a craft cocktail on the terrace of a ...

From tastings with olive oil sommeliers to celebrating harvest season at family-run mills, here’s how to experience oleotourism and immerse yourself in the world of Greece’s “liquid gold.” ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology .

Olive oil's anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties offer new possibilities in dermatology, bridging ancient traditions with modern skin car Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Images: ... This is not how people admired these works of art when they were made. Ancient statues were not only painted in ... beeswax, and olive oil — all mixed to ...

As always, the calligraphy eL Seed is painting has a meaning: “The olive season gathers the hearts before it gathers the fruits.” It's a particularly apropos sentiment. We’re here, on land that has ...

The beneficial effects of olive oil presented at the Yale Symposium. Early in the symposium, Vasiliou provided an overview of recent scientific evidence that olive oil helps with cardiometabolic ...

In ancient medicine, olive oil was ‘the great healer’, and athletes were given deep friction massages with it to cure and prevent injuries. Warriors, too, smeared themselves with olive oil and used it ...

Olive oil was ubiquitous in the ancient diet at least from the mid-first millennium BCE. Arts & Culture. A pressing matter: ... Picture: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. An oil flask is in the form of ...

It has been documented that the Minoan people have been using olive oil ever since 2000 BC. The olive is the symbol of peace; the prize of the ancient Greek Olympic champions, the Olympic laurel is a ...