A relief depicting a row of captives, carved into the Sun Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Richard Maschmeyer/ Design Pics via Getty Images As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean ...

One of the famous brothels in ancient Pompeii was called the Lupanare (Latin for wolf’s den). Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this was a two-story building built just years before the destruction of ...

The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition will be remembered at events in Hull this weekend. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Cheryl Payne, will attend a commemoration on Saturday in ...

Engraving shows the arrival of a Dutch slave ship with a group of African slaves for sale, Jamestown, Virginia, 1619. The Dutch government reportedly plans to apologize for its role in the slave trade ...

A centurion wearing sneakers and shades? AI image generators sometimes take serious liberties with history. Researchers in classical studies have now developed a tool that creates images of antiquity ...

Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720 -- ...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WJAR) — A bronze sculpture depicting people impacted by the transatlantic slave trade and their descendants was unveiled at Independence Park in Bristol on Sunday. The life-size bronze ...

A prominent gravestone of a family involved in the slave trade has been defaced with red crosses. The cross has been painted on two sides of the Rawlinson family monument at Lancaster Priory in ...

Stephanie Donegan is a Republican candidate for the District 21 State Senate seat in a suburb North of Atlanta, GA. Donegan is running in a crowded special election against six other Republicans and a ...

How old is your food? Before food was a choice, it was a necessity — the bare minimum only eaten and endured in order to ...

Economics, not racism, as the root of slavery / Eric Williams -- The simultaneous invention of slavery and racism / Winthrop D. Jordan -- Sugar and slavery from the Old to the New World / David Brion ...

An ancient Roman mosaic has recently revealed a millennia-old depiction of flip-flops – showing that certain footwear has always been in style. The discovery was announced by the Archaeological Park ...