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 ...

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 ...

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients - some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia - to mummify their dead, as revealed by a new analysis of containers ...

What a 5,700-Year-Old Wad of Chewed Gum Reveals About Ancient People and Their Bacteria Scientists dig into the diet, health and history of Danish hunter-gatherers in a new study. Share full article ...

Ancient DNA can be prone to contamination from modern humans handling the sample. In this case, however, the DNA in the chewing gum appears to be genuinely ancient.