Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A relief depicting a row of captives, carved into the Sun Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt. Richard Maschmeyer/ Design Pics via Getty ...

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Hiram Powers of Woodstock is widely considered the most famous American sculptor of the 19th century. Though he moved away from Vermont as a child, Powers wrote that even decades later he sometimes ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, "Slavery was totally different back then, right?" "Well, it couldn't have been ...