Few things are more fun to study about in history than real-life houses of ancient people (and the hilarious graffiti at Pompeii is surely a strong contender). Walking through the ruins of an ancient ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the world, covering the last 10,000 years. They found that while inequality is ...

Every society has some degree of wealth inequality--over history, across continents, there always seem to be some people who have more than others. But the amount of inequality differs--in some ...

Dara is a historical ancient city located on the Mardin. (CREDIT: iStock) By using these house sizes, researchers calculated something called the Gini coefficient —a number between 0 and 1 that ...

The luxurious House of Dionysus on Delos, Greece, offers a vivid portrait of the island’s peak commercial prosperity in ...