Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

Foods like hot dogs, hamburgers, and potato salad have become menu essentials at Independence Day cookouts across the country ...

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The oldest souvlaki, dating back to the Bronze Age, was discovered on Santorini. Recent research specifically took a look at ...

This southern Turkish seaside city has all the makings of a memorable break: an atmospheric old town, a Roman harbour full of ...

Christian Schubert and Scott Lafontaine are fighting an old prejudice: that rice doesn't belong in beer. Now they've got the ...

Their collaboration, and their Brewing for Impact initiative, introduced fonio to major breweries, who experimented with its diverse expressions: a 100 percent fonio beer from Carlsberg in Denmark ...

Learn how to brew your own Gruit beer—an ancient, hop-free beer made with herbs like yarrow, mugwort, and rosemary! Discover traditional brewing techniques and flavor profiles used before hops ...

The oldest beer Kirk French, an assistant professor of anthropology at Penn State, pointed to 9,000-year-old sites in China as the best evidence for ancient beer brewing.

The five students — divided into groups of two and three — stirred the barley mash for an hour at 68 degrees Celsius, drawing the sugars from it, a crucial step in brewing beer. In the process they ...

It tasted somewhat like a Belgian saison. For Paulette, the journey resulted in a book — In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to ...