Google Earth may be a fun way to bring the far reaches of the present-day globe to people's fingertips, but archaeologists are now using the high-tech software to recreate maps of ancient ...

Trade routes have influenced the flow of goods, cultures, and human beings for millennia. Although they once transported silk, spices, amber, and salt, some of the ancient routes or their contemporary ...

Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered in ...

The paths on Google Maps would have looked significantly different a thousand years ago. India was a country with a network of dusty trails, twisting hill routes, and seaside lanes that transported ...

Gems' unique elemental composition and atomic orientation act as a fingerprint, enabling researchers to uncover the stones' past, and with it, historical trade routes. Scientists now employ three ...

Drawings of an Australasian cockatoo found in a 13th century manuscript in the Vatican library suggest that trade routes around Australia were thriving during medieval times, according to a study ...

Juniata College geology professor Ryan Mathur is helping change the way people think about how trade was conducted more than a millennium before Christ was born. Mathur of Huntingdon is part of a ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Archaeologists have discovered an ancient trade network crisscrossing Vietnam's Mekong Delta region. As revealed by several excavations, a vast network of manufacturing hubs and trade ...

The recent discovery of an ancient shipwreck’s cargo has illuminated Iron Age trade networks and revealed a previously lost ...

A new study shows that a native potato species was brought to southern Utah by Indigenous people in the distant past, adding to an ever-growing list of culturally significant plant species that ...

Modern spectroscopy techniques can rapidly identify gemstone origins, distinguish natural from synthetic, and isolate elements that contribute to their quality WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2023 – Since ancient ...