In 1745, London doctor William Heberden wrote a scathing essay debunking what others considered the most marvellous of medicines – a peculiar concoction called mithridatum. For almost two millennia, ...

Mithridates the Great was one of the Roman Empire’s greatest foes and claimed to be a descendant of Alexander the Great, who died by poisoning. Mithridates’ father died from poison. His father died ...

Martin Shkreli has nothing on Mithridates VI. During his reign (120 to 63 B.C.E.), this king of Pontus (located on the southern edge of the Black Sea) worked as a toxicologist in between waging wars ...

King Mithridates vi of Pontus had been pushing the Roman Republic's limit for years. Finally, a large invasion force of Roman client states gathered enough troops to invade the Pontic Kingdom and ...