In its heyday, silphion, a gold flowering plant, was about as valuable as gold. This heyday, of course, was in antiquity. Treasured by both Greeks and Romans alike, they found several uses for it that ...
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How an Ancient Plant Became the World’s First Birth Control and Rome’s Love Potion. Then Went Extinct Because of It
In the 6th century BC, while Rome was still a minor city-state in the Italian peninsula, the ancient city of Cyrene ...
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Turkish Researcher Found 'Miracle' Plant in Anatolia Believed To Be Extinct 2,000 Years Ago
A legendary Greek plant, "Silphium," once popularly known as the "miracle" plant in the ancient Greek empire, has apparently made a comeback. The plant was consumed by Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians at ...
(The Conversation) — Stories in Greek mythology on the cycle of nature showing youth, death and rejuvenation can have lessons for us today on how grief changes over time and transforms who we are as ...
Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments. The work, published in the journal Science, ...
A 400-million-year-old fossil reveals that, unlike most modern plants, some of the earliest land plants didn’t have leaves radiating out at angles that follow the Fibonacci sequence. The discovery ...
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