Corals. Stunningly beautiful, in all shapes and colors, alive or petrified they have much impact on our planet and our imagination...

Sea salt: a commodity with so many attributes.  Precious and common, life giving but also corroding and destructive, ordinary and mundane...

In May 968 a diplomat from the Kingdom of Pavia in northern Italy, Liutprand of Cremona, arrived in Constantinople to meet Emperor...

In a class on Indian Ocean commodities, economy, and materiality, every year my students and I come across this scribe’s desk at the...