For centuries, women have quietly shaped history—crafting first-of-their-kind novels, leading political revolutions, p ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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

An interdisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) reveals that women living in the region of ...

A symbolic tradition across the world, colorful Easter eggs are synonymous with the holiday. The Easter egg museum in ...

From bartending to brewing to distilling spirits, women have always been in the alcohol trade. Despite facing centuries of ...

The skeletons were found buried in the ancient Abu Fatima cemetery in Nubia (now a region in Sudan). Of the 30 skeletons, 14 ...

Pearly whites are no longer in – but maybe they have not ever been. Ask Alligator Jesus, who makes custom dental accessories ...

In the book, which comes out later this year, Hauser tells the often-overlooked stories of women in ancient Greece—including the mysterious royal woman. “Too many of the faces we see peering ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia ... But Borisov claims the ancient rivers could also correspond to the Nile (Gihon), Euphrates ...

A pair of pedestrians recently stumbled across an ancient deadly weapon in a peaceful and most unlikely location: a beach in Poland. The artifact, a 2,500-year-old dagger, was found on March 30.

A 39-year-old woman from Charlottetown has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her baby daughter, Charlottetown police say. Cassie Acorn's child died at the IWK Health Centre in ...