An ancient woman’s recently discovered, richly adorned gravesite is helping archeologists better understand the complex ...

When you think of ancient history, what comes to mind? Kings, battles, empires... men writing most of the rules, right? But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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.

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 ...

On the west side of the Parthenon, depictions of Greek battles with the female Amazon tribes of the Euro-Asian Steppes help reveal the roles that women played in Ancient Greek society. Dr. Amanda ...

The rest of the time before Spaniards arrived ... were studying these ancient cultures at a site called El Curaca when they came across a special burial, according to an April 5 Facebook post ...

Our time is many years before your time ... But the kids wear shorter tunics so they can run around! Not many women in Ancient Greece are as lucky as me. Women in general are considered less ...