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This video is an explanation of ancient Egyptian economy. Source: Burstein, M. Stanley, "World History: Ancient Civilizations". Social Studies. Holt, California. 2006.

Marcy says, "I am a Ph.D. archaeologist concerned with the integration of archaeological findings into solutions for present-day environmental issues such as global warming. My research specialties include colonization and evolutionary theory...

From c. 100 B.C. to A.D. 1300, the Sierra de San Francisco, Mexico (in the El Vizcaino reserve, in Baja California) was home to a people who have now disappeared but who left one of the most outstanding collections of rock paintings in the...

A graduate of San Francisco State University, Daniel's archaeological expertise is on the pre- and proto-historic periods of San Francisco. His Masters thesis was on the pre-histoy and history of Lake Merced, and the foundation of the Past...

Kathering says, "I graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with degrees in Anthropology, Communication, and Art History. I have traveled fairly extensively worldwide to destinations including Thailand, Greece, England...

The women known as Valkyries (Old Norse 'Valkyrja') feature in countless stories of the Norse gods and heroes. Dr. Jackson Crawford is a historical linguist and an experienced teacher of both Old Norse and Modern Icelandic. He currently...

As part of our ongoing work at Babylon, World Monuments Fund engaged California-based nonprofit CyArk to conduct a comprehensive laser scan of the site's archaeological elements. Based on that data, the University of Florida’s Envision Heritage...

Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1519. Taking the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521, Cortés plundered Mesoamerica as he became the first ruler of the new colony...

Pre-Colonial North America (also known as Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric, and Precontact) is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and contact between indigenous tribes and European...

Cahokia is a modern-day historical park in Collinsville, Illinois, enclosing the site of the largest pre-Columbian city on the continent of North America. The original name of this city has been lost – Cahokia is a modern-day designation...