In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton, which had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. This was hard work ...