This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). “This perfume was first made for royalty.” The salesman at Amouage perfume factory in Muscat is pointing towards a 24-carat gold flask, ...

Some of the earliest writings — including those inscribed on papyrus in Egypt and later in ancient Greece and Rome — contain recipes for making medicines. Finding physical proof, however, that ...

Researchers scraped residue from ancient Roman bottles and discovered what might have been a medical concoction. (Ilker Demirbolat (left); Cenker Atila (right)) Some of the earliest writings — ...