Mithridates was a Greco-Persian king, who left his mark in history for his war against the Romans and for developing immunity to poison.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...