Iran’s three “salt men” could be endangered by the renewal of a mining permit. It is thought that the three men, whose bodies have been preserved in salt, died in a mine collapse. During Philly Beer Week next month, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery will debut Theobroma, a chocolate ale based on residues found in a […]

A first-century lighthouse has reportedly been discovered intact at the Roman port of Patara in southern Turkey. David Reed of the University of Florida and his team examined the DNA of lice collected from the heads of 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies, and found that the parasites probably traveled out of Africa with humans and accompanied them […]