Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...

Wealth inequality began over 10,000 years ago, gradually increasing after the advent of agriculture due to population growth ...

Inequality, it turns out, is not a natural outcome of agriculture or societal progress but it is a consequence of deliberate choices by those in power.

A comprehensive analysis of thousands of homes from the last 10,000 years reveals the distribution of wealth in ancient times ...

Archaeological research has revealed how wealth inequality over the past 10,000 years was encouraged by land-hungry farming practices. A groundbreaking study led by Professor Amy Bogaard from Oxford ...

A new study led by Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, reveals that ...

Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population booms, or cities, the divide between rich and poor has ebbed and flowed ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention ...

Wealth inequality has been linked to human sustainability for over 10,000 years. That’s according to a new study led by Professor Dan Lawrence from our Archaeology department.

Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study that challenges ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...