Sticky rice was not the only thing that ancient masons added to mortar. Vegetable leaves, egg whites, tung oil, fish oil and animal blood were all used to improve the performance of mortars in ...

Ancient chewing gum found by archaeologists in Scandinavia contains the oldest DNA ever found in this region. The 10,000-year-old gum is made from sticky Birch tree bark tar and can teach us a lot ...

Scientists find ancient chewing gum in Finland Finns, who introduced a birch-tree sweetener for gum, have found that the habit of chewing sticky lumps dates back thousands of years. Aug. 20, 2007 ...

Or she might have simply been enjoying what amounted to Neolithic chewing gum. In any case, when she discarded the tar, it was sealed away under layers of sand and silt for some 5,700 years until ...

ANCIENT chewing gum found by archaeologists in Scandinavia contains the oldest DNA ever found in this region. The 10,000 year old gum is made from sticky Birch tree bark tar and can teach us a lot ...

UMM RUWABA, Sudan -- Farmers here call these sandblasted acacia orchards the "gardens of our grandfathers," and for centuries the sticky amber sap flowing from them helped to bind civilization ...

Ancient "chewing gum" holds Scandinavia's oldest-known human DNA, found at a site in western Sweden and dating to about 10,000 years ago. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

CAIRO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The lowest offer presented at an Egyptian state purchasing tender for vegetable oils on Thursday was $990 per metric ton c&f for 5,500 tons of sunflower oil, traders said ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - There's a sticky situation outside of City Hall. People are apparently vandalizing overhead bus lane signs high in the sky with gum. The bus lane sign on Broadway and ...

In faded black ink made of soot and gum arabic mixed with water, an ancient Egyptian scribe has carefully described what he calls a "powder for white and perfect teeth".

DNA from 5,700-year-old ‘gum’ shows what one ancient woman may have looked like. Chewed birch pitch could be an overlooked source of ancient genetic material, researchers say ...