The largest of four fifteenth-century tapestries, known collectively as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, takes falconry as its subject. Lovers are depicted strolling arm-in-arm as their birds hunt ...

Image Credit: Petar Milošević - Own work - CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. Roman history often brings to mind a parade of emperors, senators, and generals, all men shaping the destiny of an empire. But ...

In the shadow of Vesuvius, Pompeii has long offered an unparalleled window into ancient Roman life—but the view has been skewed. For centuries, women’s roles in the city have been overlooked or ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...

Ancient DNA reveals that during the Iron Age, women in ancient Celtic societies were at the center of their social networks — unlike previous... Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center For ...

Egyptology, the study of Ancient Egypt, is an area of research that was once closed to women. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a few women used their wealth to leave their mark on the field. Their ...

Our understanding of ancient history is largely shaped by what elite men said about themselves and each other. Their mothers, sisters and daughters are mostly missing from the story. Their lost voices ...

Women in the country have struggled for centuries for their rights, freedom and ownership. It seems history has been quite unfair to the women. From various rituals to ancient texts, everything was ...

New genetic evidence suggests that female family ties were central to social structures in pre-Roman Britain, offering a fresh perspective on Celtic society and its gender dynamics. An analysis of ...

Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side that hardly finds its way into textbooks. Under the neat image is a world ...

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...