Slavery was a core part of life in ancient Rome—for both its economy and society. But when did it actually end? In this video ...

A bakery where enslaved people were imprisoned and exploited to produce bread has been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in what has been described as the most shocking example of slavery in the ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...

ROME, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered a "bakery-prison" where slaves and donkeys were locked up to grind the grain needed to make bread, the ...

A recent study published in the academic journal Florentia Iliberritana of the University of Granada sheds light on a ...