Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route.

Archaeologists unearthed a 6,000-year-old longhouse, revealing the presence of not one, but two distinct Neolithic cultures.

Considered Egypt’s Golden Age, the New Kingdom was a period of economic success, expansion, and advancements in technology, ...

Upon the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, one of his generals, Ptolemy, gained control of Egypt. How did he and his ...

Jonathan Reynolds lays out his four key goals for economic growth in the UK. The Business and Trade Secretary was speaking at ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 12th Dynasty hidden burial chamber with a beautifully decorated coffin.

New studies show Norse Vikings and Arctic Native Americans (or Indigenous peoples) traded walrus ivory in Greenland.

A Blackfoot man's team won the History Channel's "Forged in Fire" competition by building an ancient Roman ballista.

Additionally, Bronze Age Frattesina is the oldest evidence of glassmaking in Italy and the home of “Europe’s first ...

Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot ...

The Makara is a dragon-headed, fish-bodied mythical animal first introduced into China along with Buddhism. The latter was ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on ...