Yet, beneath the thorns and brambles, we discovered rare white bronze (zinc) grave markers. We returned to Taylor County, Georgia, and what we found was shocking. The once-maintained Newsome Cemetery—clear and tidy just 14 years ago—is now a tangled, overgrown mess nestled in a peach orchard. #peachorchard #cemeteryexploration #forgottencemetery | Adventures Into History

Anglo Saxon monks developed a remedy for eye infections 1000 years ago that is now fighting modern antibiotic resistant bacteria. Documented in Bolds Leechbook, a 10th century medical manuscript, the treatment mixes garlic, onion, wine and oxgall in a brass vessel for nine days. Modern scientists at the University of Nottingham recreated the recipe and discovered that the special combination and the brass vessel, which releases copper and zinc ions, effectively kill bacteria including dangerous