Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

It was, of course, often the slaves who were forced to enter the mines and extract the metals, which allowed free citizens to wage war with each other. Most ancient history museums covering ancient ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, ... Free men, free non-citizens, and even slaves working on projects like the Acropolis received similar pay.

A new DNA study revealed Monday that several parts of Ancient Greece encouraged its citizens to marry their first cousins, according to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such ...

Ancient Lives, a project of citizen scholarship Zooniverse, makes it possible for regular folks with no knowledge of Greek to help with the work of translating important ancient Greek documents.

The ancient Greek armies were manned exclusively by citizens who brought their own weapons into battle. Getting to serve in an élite combat unit required being wealthy enough to afford to buy one ...