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 ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it is known that he traveled from his home of Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome in ...

Ancient Rome was a man’s world ... If they angered him, he had the legal right to disown his children, sell them into slavery or even kill them. Only the paterfamilias could own property ...

It was named after its owners, the Vettii brothers, two former slaves. Aulus Vettius Conviva ... late 1894 and early 1896 showed that the ancient Roman townhouse, built on top of the ruins of ...