While there are no records to attest to how the Inca mastered this art, perhaps some conclusions can be drawn from the practices that persist to the present day: children in the Andean highlands ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores ... Favored with an abundance of natural resources, the people of this region developed metalworking and pottery-making to a level of ...

These techniques, in fact, were invented thousands of years ago by the leaders of the Ancient World ... was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status.