A hiker discovered the 400-year-old remains of a wealthy man on a glacier in the Swiss Alps. Melting ice revealed the mysterious man had traveled with many coins, weapons, and possibly mules. The ...

Hikers and mountaineers are finding ancient human artifacts in the melting glaciers of the Alps. Some discoveries are valuable snapshots of ancient economies, while others are total mysteries. Glacial ...

There are multiple differences between antiquity’s economic practices and those of the modern world, and these should be borne in mind when considering the changing context for enterprise through the ...

Fresco showing guests at a banquet and an enslaved person to the far right serving the banqueters, from the House of the Triclinium in Pompeii (40–79 CE), held by the National Archaeological Museum of ...

Money shapes every aspect of modern life, but its journey from ancient commodities to digital currency spans thousands of years. The story of money reveals how human societies solved the fundamental ...

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a pre-Hispanic camp in Mexico where the ancient Maya cooked and ate snails. The researchers uncovered the camp during excavations in the municipality of ...

Chapter 1: The Graeco-Oriental world before Alexander: The general conditions and primitive for of the economy in ancient times -- Two great economic powers: Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Maritime and ...

As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California's Native Americans, Lynn Gamble(link is external) knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell ...