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By Karen Taylor International maritime trade first emerged around the world thousands of years ago, linking small traders with goods they could otherwise not access. Today, what is referred to as the ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

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Key Monastery, Chadratal, Hikkim - Spiti is literally and spiritually the coolest place to be this summer. , Destinations ...

Long ago in ancient India reigned a Greek king named Menander I Soter, a great conqueror and benefactor of Buddhism ...

The book emphasizes Gaza's crucial role in any future Israeli-Palestinian peace, while analyzing the historical impasses and ...

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As Narendra Modi embarks on his tour of Thailand and Sri Lanka, which have played a seminal civilisational role in the ...

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

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