Excavations at the Sant Gregori site in Burriana (Spain) have revealed that this maritime villa specialized in viticulture. The research team, coordinated by the Mediterranean Archaeology Partnership Programme at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló (UJI), in collaboration with the Archaeological Museum of Burriana, has identified structures for wine production (cella vinaria) and agricultural plots dedicated to viticulture (fundus). Due to the significance of these findings, the Burriana City Council and the Archaeological Museum are working to include these areas in the site’s musealization and enhancement project.

From the RMS Titanic to the SS Endurance, shipwrecks offer valuable — yet swiftly deteriorating — windows into the past. Conservators slowly dry marine wooden artifacts to preserve them but doing so can inflict damage. To better care for delicate marine artifacts, researchers in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering developed a new hydrogel that quickly neutralizes harmful acids and stabilized waterlogged wood from an 800-year-old shipwreck.

A study led by researchers from the UAB and the University La Sapienza in Rome indicates that during the Late Neolithic, between 7000 and 5000 BCE, the fully agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, developed a complex culinary tradition that included the baking of large loaves of bread and “focaccias” with different flavours on special trays known to archaeologists as husking trays.