After all, Roman law designated slaves as property, not people. However, slavery in ancient Rome underpinned much of society’s success, and the freeborn citizens of Rome were heavily dependent ...

The lifestyle of elite professional sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome was comparable to that of a celebrity today.

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Over the last 80 years we have rediscovered Roman London in the city’s basements and sewers At some point in the 400s, a Saxon wandering in Roman Londinium’s ruins dropped his brooch on top of the ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea. The details point to two individuals being guilty of fraud, forgery, and slave trade. The explanation of the ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

Bring New Orleans to Nashville with king cakes, crawfish boils, brass bands & potentially terrifying cocktails at Fatbelly ...