In ancient Greece and Rome, despite the absence of modern financial markets, a robust culture of investment thrived. People ...

People also invested and traded in precious goods, like artworks. When the Romans sacked the city of Corinth in 146 BC, they stole the city’s collection of famous artwork, and later sold the ...

image: A team of archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University and the University of Haifa has discovered new and compelling evidence for a significant economic downturn on the fringe of the Byzantine ...

In the field of economics, the concept of a market economy is largely considered a modern phenomenon. Influential economists such as Karl Marx and Max Weber, for example, argued that although markets ...

There are multiple differences between antiquity’s economic practices and those of the modern world, and these should be borne in mind when considering the changing context for enterprise through the ...

Fresco showing guests at a banquet and an enslaved person to the far right serving the banqueters, from the House of the Triclinium in Pompeii (40–79 CE), held by the National Archaeological Museum of ...

Pilgrims came from hundreds of miles away to sacrifice animals at an ancient temple in Jerusalem, new research suggests. An analysis of bones found in an ancient dump in the city dating back 2,000 ...

Chapter 1: The Graeco-Oriental world before Alexander: The general conditions and primitive for of the economy in ancient times -- Two great economic powers: Egypt and Mesopotamia -- Maritime and ...

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy. By Philip Coggan. Profile Books; 480 pages; £25. To be published in America by Hachette in March as “More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron ...

Ancient trash heaps recently yielded some clues about how the Plague of Justinian, part of a one-two punch with volcanic climate havoc, devastated commercial farming at the fringes of the Byzantine ...

In the field of economics, the concept of a market economy is largely considered a modern phenomenon. Influential economists such as Karl Marx and Max Weber, for example, argued that although markets ...