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, Roman ...

A bedroom "assigned to slaves" was discovered by archaeologists near Pompeii. The room at the Civita Giuliana villa sheds light on the living conditions of ancient Roman slaves. It showed "the ...

Museum of London Archaeology researchers have identified the remains of a shackled slave in Britain during the Roman Empire, providing "unquestionable" evidence of "the role slavery has played ...

Topics include enslavement, the economics and politics of slavery, slaves' sex and family lives, manumission and ex-slaves, everyday resistance, gladiators and the great slave revolts, and the decline ...

A relief depicting a row of captives, carved into the Sun Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Richard Maschmeyer/ Design Pics via Getty Images As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean ...

Surrounding nearly every galaxy is thought to be a vast halo of "dark matter," which dominates the motion of the stars in the galaxy. Today’s researchers investigate some of the most perplexing ...

This article first appeared on the Eidolon site. It is the second of two articles that should be read in order. The first part can be found here. The distrust of immigrants I explored in my previous ...

Archeologists working in central England have found a shackled skeleton which, they say, provides physical evidence that slavery was practiced in Roman Britain. The adult male was buried in a ditch ...

Chance Bonar works at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, and is affiliated with their ongoing Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies at Tufts University project. The effects of ...