Amber exported through the ancient trade route found in Greece Amber has long been used in folk medicine for ... then to the Mediterranean and several other areas, including Egypt and Syria. In Roman ...

In the remote corners of the Mediterranean, the island of Pantelleria has once again yielded a rare glimpse into ancient ...

In 2021, an ancient Chinese coin from the 11th century was found in England, indicating that medieval trade between England ...

A mosaic from a Roman villa in Sicily depicts ten women wearing an ancient version of the two-piece bikini. Credit: TyB / CC-BY-2.0 / Wikimedia Commons It is believed that the bikini was a ...

In a study recently published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, researcher Brandon McDonald from Tufts University ...

The Roman empire was at its height when a deadly disease caused devastation to its population, economy and military prowess.

Indo-Roman relations were built on trade. Roman trade in India began with overland caravans and later by direct maritime trade following the conquest of Egypt by Augustus in 30 BCE. According to ...

Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) have excavated the remains of two ancient Roman wells ... into a full-fledged, gated Roman trading outpost housing metalworkers ...

Recent archaeological excavations at the ancient site of Fregellae, located around 100 kilometers from Rome, have unearthed ...

Why are parts of the country still dotted with Roman coin hordes? See how ancient trade led to India being called the ‘sink ...

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which is one of the largest such sites in the Mediterranean and includes the remains of an ancient Greek colony founded in the 7th century BC. The discovery was on the same site where 107 Roman ...