Near the cliffs of Luxor, where ancient temples rise from the desert, a new discovery is changing how we understand one of ...

Further evidence has emerged that 8,000 years ago, women had at least as much status in society as men, at least in one of ...

Researchers from Ghent University worked with artists to reconstruct the face of a woman who lived in Belgium 10,500 years ...

The detailed reconstruction brings the prehistoric hunter-gatherer to life, revealing an intriguing set of features.

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

There is a popular tradition from Welsh folklore about a prince who, in the middle of the Middle Ages, set out to cross the ...

Over her many years, there have been plenty of women to claim the title of Wonder Woman, but who stands as the best Amazonian ...

In a new remount of Charles Newell's critically acclaimed 2011 production, Timothy Edward Kane brings blistering rage to this ...

The author explores the roles and personalities of Homer’s characters—the Greek beauty Helen, the enslaved girl Briseis, the Trojan royal Hecuba, the witch Circe, Odysseus’ patient wife, Penelope, and ...

The trouble was that Troy might not even have existed. The acclaimed Greek poet Homer popularized the Trojans and their city in The Iliad and The Odyssey, the 8th-century B.C. epic poems.These ...

The large relief pithos is decorated with the capture of Troy. Credit: Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia An ancient vase discovered on Mykonos redrew the history of the Trojan War, which has captivated the ...

More broadly, the woman is a “fascinating case study” of the various ways archaeologists have misread the women of the ancient past, Hauser tells Smithsonian magazine.