New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

For many years, the ancient Greeks and Romans were fooled ... This demand gave rise to some of the first truly international trade routes and shaped the structure of the world economy in a ...

Translation in ancient societies wasn’t as formal as it is today, and interpreters who could speak Greek, Latin, Persian, Coptic, and Arabic, to name a few, would have had to mediate across cultures ...