Key Takeaways Olive oil is expensive by nature, with years-long tree cultivation, labor-heavy harvesting, low yields, and steady global demand.There’s a wide quality gap between mass-produced olive ...

There's a special kind of olive oil that's produced in a mountainous country in southeastern Europe, and everyone should know ...

Archaeological findings reveal that Italy was producing olive oil more than a thousand years before Rome, changing ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, ...

Archaeologists unearthed the Roman Empire’s second-largest olive oil processing complex in Tunisia. The find sheds light on the region’s central role in olive oil production and trade, and in turn the ...