Women of ancient Athens used clothing pins as weapons, prompting a shift in Ancient Greek fashion and societal control.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such ...

New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece. A woman places her robe in a chest in a fifth century B.C. Greek ...

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 ...

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Medical instruments and skeletons found in excavations are valuable sources of knowledge regarding the illnesses, causes of death and therapeutic methods of Ancient Greeks. So, what was it like to be ...

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