A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Excavation details relating to an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) tomb cluster in Yuncheng, North China's Shanxi Province, were ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

For a long time, the ancient empires of Rome and China’s Han dynasty have fascinated historians and archaeologists. These two powerful civilizations shaped much of the world’s early history. But which ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...