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 ...

Archaeologists examined the remains of houses in ancient Maya cities and compared them with other Mesoamerican societies; they found that the societies with the most wealth inequality were also the ...

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 ...

“[T]his study show[s] how the owner of the house stimulated the visitor’s senses to convey a message about its power and wealth,” says co-author Danilo M. Campanaro in a statement. Antiquity, 2022 ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

What is believed to be a council house built more than 1,000 years ago sheds light on how Maya systems of governance shifted ...

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 ...