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As the G20 announces a pathbreaking economic corridor between India and Europe, a prominent historian tells ARJUN SENGUPTA about its predecessor — the ancient Red Sea trade route, much bigger and historically more significant than the overland route from China.
Drawing on rich ethnographic data as well as archaeological evidence, The Boundaries of Ancient Trade -- by archaeologist Helina Woldekiros in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis -- challenges long-standing conceptions of highly centralized sociopolitical and economic organization and trade along the Afar salt trail: one of the last economically significant caravan-based trade routes in the world.
The making and eating of cheese is ubiquitous and was once considered a peasant food, but it evolved into a scientific process advanced by ancient trade routes.
When a peculiar bell was discovered by a missionary in a remote village of New Zealand, little could he have imagined that it would become an enduring mystery.