When you think of ancient history, what comes to mind? Kings, battles, empires... men writing most of the rules, right? But pause for a second. Look a little closer. Because woven into the grand ...

Guest: Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and the author of The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four) became legally ...

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of ... of the various ways archaeologists have misread the women of the ancient past, Hauser tells Smithsonian magazine.

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman myth, the ...

the ancient and very sad city inhabited by slaves, revealed a year ago, but the real Pompeii already known, often forgotten and closer to today's. A new exhibition, this time about women ...

Women had special rights ... Not many examples of ancient Egyptian houses have survived because they were built a very long time ago. Houses would have been built of mud-bricks with floors ...