The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

Staff Writers Molly Hanley and Rania Woodward take opposite sides in the debate between physical books and e-readers.

But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure ... Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass: Peabody Museum [Harvard], 1996 ...

In this book, we have sought to fill the gaps of knowledge on subjects that the average Jewish college student might confront ...

Silver has been valued for thousands of years for its beauty, rarity, and many uses. Today, it’s still a trusted way to invest, especially in the form of physical silver. One of the best options is ...

Many of the early civilizations, from Mesopotamia to Egypt and Ancient Greece ... performances as acts of personal exploration, and any money they made from it was appreciated but was not the ...

women have been the pillars of the brewing industry since ancient times. The first recorded beer recipe is thought to have been written on a piece of clay in 1800 BC as an ode to Ninkasi, the Sumerian ...

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia ... to farmers and ranchers who didn’t have money to buy supplies. The merchants issued metal ...