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 ...

Olive oil cake was first baked in the Mediterranean, where olive oil trees are grown in abundance. The ancient Greeks and Romans have been using olive oil in their cooking and baking for centuries.