Cato the Elder promoted cabbage. Galen disapproved of olives. Hippocrates thought infants should be given wine.

Ancient Humans Had a ‘Herbivorous’ Diet, Nitrogen in Fossils Revealed a Lack of Meat Consumption Recent examinations imply that meat possibly did not have as big of a role in human evolution, as ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

This finding comes from the first direct proof what these ancient people ate. Researchers analysed the diet of a woman who lived 12,800 years ago. They used chemical clues found in the bones of ...

Long before humans acquired an appetite for meat, one of our earliest hominin ancestors — Australopithecus — stuck to a vegetarian diet. The ancient hominin, living in eastern and southern Africa ...

Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.

This conclusion comes from the first direct evidence of the diet of these ancient people. Researchers analysed the diet of a woman who lived 12,800 years ago, using chemical clues found in the ...

Much of what is now considered Greek ingredients have their roots far beyond its borders. The New World changed the Greek ...

The work marks an important advance in researchers' ability to reconstruct ancient diets, because it involved developing a new method to look inside tooth enamel for evidence of eating meat.

Revolutionary findings challenge what we know about blood types and nutrition, revealing why the same diet affects people ...