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

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 — ...

As much as 10% of the world’s Roma, or Romani, people live in Latin America. In Chile, this community carries on with its traditions to this day. This is Episode 17 of Stories of Resistance.