Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

Life as a Roman slave was harsh and dehumanizing but also full of strange contradictions, unexpected privileges, and unusual roles. This video explores the lesser-known and bizarre aspects of slavery ...

Small branding irons from ancient Egypt were likely used to mark the skin of human slaves, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Archaeologists Find New Evidence of Ancient Slave Labor in Southern Iraq BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to ...

Servants at Machu Picchu Came From Distant Corners of the Inca Empire The city’s servant class was a genetically diverse community, according to a new study of ancient DNA ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times ...

Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned ...

Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction spanned ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor.

Archaeologists work at an archaeological site where researchers dated some of the massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their construction ...