The scientists used mass spectrometry to date the bitumen MIPT Russian archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek urn full of dense bitumen in the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea. A ...

Copepod crustaceans are extremely abundant but, because of their small size and fragility, they fossilize poorly. Their fossil record consists of one Cretaceous (c. 115 Ma) parasite and a few Miocene ...

A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in ...

Praj Industries, one of India’s leading industrial biotech companies, has developed innovative technology to produce bio-bitumen based on lignin. The Netherlands-based Circular Biobased Delta, one of ...