Ancient frescoes like the Greek monkeys suggest Europe and south Asia had trade links as long as 3,600 years ago.

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

Voyageurs National Park, one of the nation’s most unique parks that is accessible largely only by water, preserves 220,000 ...

The winter winds howled across the Upper Great Lakes, the kind that cut to the bone and warned of hard times ahead. But inside her trading post, Madeline Laframboise stood firm. A Métis businesswoman, ...

Medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are actually made of sealskin from northern regions ...

Catch the National Cherry Blossom Festival parade and street festival, shop vintage at a ticketed market, or celebrate D.C. Emancipation Day with fireworks.

Japan's second-largest shipping company, aims to capitalise on opportunities that emerge from a shift in trade routes driven ...

I am talking of course about the global fur trade. As we mark World Health Day (April 7), and reflect on the devastating impact of the pandemic, it is beholden on us all to do everything we can to ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.