Salt Caravans
Han Dynasty Chinese tile showing people mining salt underground and then processing it. See the bamboo pipe? Mining salt in antiquity The salt trade, already important in the Bronze Age, [...]
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History of honey
History of honey: Chimpanzee smashing a beehive to get honey When did people start to eat honey? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, long before [...]
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Daily Life in Early Africa
African people: Mary and Jesus, from Ethiopia (ca. 1500 AD) (Now in the J. Paul Getty Museum) Equality and power in early Africa Ancient African society mostly didn't have the [...]
