Trade has fueled the rise of civilizations for millennia,connecting cultures, boosting economies, and spreading ideas across continents. Explore the fascinating history of trade routes, mapping the ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and ...

image: Image showing the area covered by the Viabundus digital map. Researchers have built a digital platform revealing long-distance trade routes in Northern Europe between 1350 and 1650. view more ...

An extremely rare medieval gold Rhenish coin has been unearthed near Kamień Pomorski in West Pomerania, Poland. The discovery was made by history enthusiast Daniel Kwaśniak, a member of the ...

The routes of slave trade in Eastern Europe in the medieval and pre-modern period extended all the way to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. A recent study suggests that persons captured during ...

Dated to between 1008 and 1016 A.D., the 0.98-inch copper-alloy coin was the second medieval Chinese coin found in England; the first was found across the country in 2018 in Cheshire, per the ...

This medieval book, kept at the Médiathèque du Grand Troyes in France, is wrapped with seal skin. Though the book's cover is now worn, it may have been much furrier in its heyday. É. Lévêque ...

700-year-old Vatican drawing of Australian bird rewrites medieval trade route history By Nicholas Ford June 27, 20188:50 PM PDTUpdated June 27, 2018 ...

Research article: Korpela, Jukka. The Baltic Finnic People in the Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern European Slave Trade. Russian History 41 (2014) 85-117. DOI: 10.1163/18763316-04101006 ...