SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

On the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. It comprises a unique ...

An extraordinary, lengthy document dated to around 130 A.D. chronicles a legal case from ancient Judaea. The details point to ...

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 ...

Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

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 ...

and the organization of daily life to ancient slavery, economics, and law. Focuses either on Persia, Greece, or Rome and includes a particular emphasis on the methodology required to reconstruct an ...