“We now see a clearer picture of daily life, craftsmanship and trade in ancient Cyprus.” The excavation also provides new insights into the social structure of the period. Unlike later ...

Four trade-unionists who were accused of racism after drawing a satirical cartoon of the three wise ... speak no evil”. The ancient Japanese saying is nowadays applied to those who wilfully ...

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown burial site in the Negev Highlands, shedding light on ancient trade networks spanning Arabia, Phoenicia, Egypt ...

There weren’t schools like the ones we have today, but ancient Egyptians did have apprenticeships. This meant that many children had jobs or were learning a trade. Enslaved people worked as ...

Some ancient artifacts are mysteries, but they still indicate trade routes through the mountains. Here's what Norway's glacial archaeologists found in the meltiest part of this past summer.

We need to have precise methods to distinguish the source of a gemstone and trace ancient trade routes in order to have correct information about the original place from which it was mined." ...

The silver used to make an ancient Egyptian queen's bracelets came from Greece, a new analysis finds, offering insight into the Old Kingdom's trade networks. When you purchase through links on our ...

The findings suggest a sophisticated economy that relied not only on conquest but on active long-distance trade, even with rival ... can be leveraged to study ancient objects and what they can ...

The remnants of a 2,000-year-old curry found in Vietnam have shed new light on ancient trade routes and the role of spices in people's daily lives at the time. An Australian National University ...

The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal AIP Advances, recorded how researchers were able to examine the unique elemental compositions to identify ancient trade routes.