Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

In Greek and Roman times, Ephesus was the center of worship of Diana (or Artemis), goddess of hunting. Its Temple of Artemis was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... A house about 7 km ...

This water jar from around 500BC shows a 'fountain-house'. Women came here to fill ... Men and women usually ate separately in ancient Greece. Rich people always ate at home - only enslaved ...

In the wake of population growth, many men left their native polities and moved to sparsely populated regions around Greece. In ancient Greece, agriculture was the dominant form of life. In each city, ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...