Joe’s murder was the impetus for the annual Valentine’s Day Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver. In the decades since she ...

China's first coins were cowrie shells, which have been found in tombs dating back nearly 4,000 years, followed by copper cash in various shapes Round coins with a square hole came in 2,000 years ...

1,200 BC: Cowrie Shells The first use of cowries, the shell of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many ...

See below for more details. Applications will close at 11.59pm on June 12, 2024. The University has partnered with The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation to offer scholarships to support Black African and ...

Seafarers of the Marshall Islands built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and cowrie shells. These ingenious charts, which exist today only in museums, denoted everything from the position of ...

The cowrie, a type of marine snail, has very colourful shells which were used as money. It seems that it wasn’t just the colours that made the shell appealing - its small size and durability ...

The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation and the University of Sheffield are offering one scholarship to a home fee-paying Black British undergraduate student starting their studies in September 2024. You ...

The Lion Tells His Tale” is the stage incarnation of Delbert Richardson’s American History Traveling Museum: The Unspoken ...

“Investments in ski areas are well and good, but they really need to have that community focus and culture focus,” said Eliza ...