Aioli, the creamy, garlicky, olive-oil-based sauce that's often compared ... believed to have ancient origins that trace back ...

The Romans had a serious trash problem, though by our standards it was good-looking trash. Their problem was amphorae. They needed millions of the curvy clay jars to ship wine, olive oil ...

In the Mediterranean, soap was entirely unknown: Egyptians and Romans used oils for bathing and the Egyptians ... the Mediterranean area led to the development of soaps based on olive oil and lye from ...