Grain and finance The need to buy and sell wheat created modern commerce Wheat was money, when a store was no more than a store of goods to be exchanged for wheat.
Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world Continue Reading →
Persephone’s secret The Eleusinian Mysteries and the making of the modern economy Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about? Continue Reading →