Money Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Benjamin Franklin may be best known as the creator of bifocals and the lightning rod, but a group of University of Notre Dame
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - For 4500 years, human life was controlled and even manipulated by money. Ever since ancient times, money has played a central role in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One never knows where archaeological treasures are hidden. Sometimes the most unanticipated finds can be made in unexpected places. The invention of the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Salt has always been important and essential for life. The Classic Maya made salt by boiling brine in pots over fires in salt
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Chumash Indians produced shell beads for thousands of years in the Santa Barbara Channel region, and had special bead-manufacturing sites. The Chumash
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The need for fast cash is not new. Our ancestors realized it long ago and came up with the idea of pawnbroking. Money has
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Ancient History Facts
AncientPages.com - Have you ever wondered why coins are round? The answer can be found in historical records. There is a valid reason why our ancestors decided to produce
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The history of banks can be traced to ancient Babylonian temples in the early 2nd millennium BC. In Babylon at the time of
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