During the construction of the Parthenon of Acropolis, slaves worked alongside Athenian citizens doing the same work for equal pay. Credit: Public Domain Was the Parthenon of Acropolis built with the ...

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 ...

Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world, it still exists, and even on the narrowest definition of slavery it's likely that there are far more slaves now than there were ...

Agesilaus II is known as the greatest Spartan King. Credit: Niko978, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 The helots, as the slaves in ancient Sparta were known, were the subjugated part of the population that actually ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as ...

The Austrian school recognizes that economic analysis is timeless and the ancient story of “The Poor Man of Nippur” provides ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Assembly member Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, speaks on a bill at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif ...

10 million more people were in modern slavery in 2021 compared to 2016 global estimates, bringing the total to 50 million worldwide. Women and children remain disproportionately vulnerable.

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia. Archaeologists in Kuwait have ...

When President Biden visits the country this week, he is expected to highlight a largely overlooked bond between Angola and the United States that was born out of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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