A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

Excavation details relating to an Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) tomb cluster in Yuncheng, North China's Shanxi Province, were ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist.

For centuries, the splendor of Rome and the mythical grandeur of the Han dynasty in China have captured the imagination of ...