The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved ... In my new book, "Mythica," which looks at the women not of Rome but of Bronze age Greece, I've found that new ...

But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in a new study, they were even coated with deeply aromatic perfumes. In ancient Greece and Rome ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...

Both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler particularly praised the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, and the idea of white classical statues was useful in the ... while the white skin of ...