Breastfeeding has been depicted in art throughout the centuries, forming a visual representation of women’s lived experiences concerning religion and societal expectations. Ancient civilizations ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names ...

Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

Ancient genomes reveal that a bacterial fever jumped from human-borne ticks to lice around the time wool textiles became ...

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

But battles over clothing, primarily relating to women, is a well-worn path. In 2004 Sepp Blatter, then president of world football’s governing body Fifa, suggested that women players wear ...

When the Nile flooded, Egyptians celebrated the feast of Opet, a joyous procession the carried statues of the gods from Karnak to Luxor. This 20th-century illustration by American artist Balage ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists ...

YORK CITY. IT’S KNOWN AS FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT, WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST STARS IN ATTENDANCE. BUT JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, AN IOWA ARTIFACT WAS ON DISPLAY IN THE CITY. KCCI OLIVIA ...

With more temples than any other ancient Egyptian goddess, Hathor stands as one of the most powerful deities in Egyptian mythology. In Egypt of the 31st century B.C.E., artists frequently focused on ...

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