The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

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 ...

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, ...

The legendary ancient Greek courtesan Lais of Corinth was famous for her beauty that left no man resistant to her charms, and her extravagant demands and sharp tongue ...

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 ...