The scents of decaying bodies and human waste would have mingled in the bustling streets...

Ancient Rome would have been an olfactory assault of "rotting, decaying" human waste, wood smoke and animal waste, an archaeologist says.

To the modern nose ancient Rome would have been an olfactory assault, an archaeologist says. ......

Southern Europe is in the grip of an unforgiving heatwave, with blistering temperatures pushing above 40°C in several countries and sparking wildfire...

Southern Europe is in the grip of an unforgiving heatwave, with blistering temperatures pushing above 40°C in several countries and sparking wildfire...

Ancient stone tools found in Greece reveal early human butchery skills from 430,000 years ago. Credit: Dalila De Caro / CC BY 4.0 Ancient stone tools...

A funeral home owner in Colorado accused of storing nearly 190 decomposing bodies in a room-temperature building and defrauding the federal government...

Ancient stone tools unearthed in southern Greece are providing new insight into early human butchery practices nearly half a million years ago....

Ancient stone tools unearthed in southern Greece are providing new insight into early human butchery practices nearly half a million years ago....

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia. ......