The concept of a public bath house always seemed very foreign and ancient to me. I thought of bathhouses as a very European concept, specifically in ancient Rome and Greece.

We are so used to our modern hygiene rituals that we often don’t think about what life and self-care were like in the past.

A small illustrated vase exhibited in Athens offers rare insight on the cultic rituals of the mythological god Poseidon in ancient Greece.

In ancient Greece, wigs were used mostly by ... and the belief that it was of higher quality than men’s. Traders at fairs would buy hair from peasant girls. Blond or silver-gray hair was often ...

This name suggestion comes from John "Calico Jack" Rackham, an English pirate from the 18th century. Calico Jack was a ...

Images of emperors and other important political figures were carefully branded, distinguished by the cut of their beard, the coil of their hair ... in ancient times simply because of its raw, ...

When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world ... to be in our culture. Men and women beat their heads and breasts, poured dust on their hair, tore their clothing ...

Roughly 3,500 years ago, a woman was buried in a royal cemetery in present-day Greece. Now ... see peering back at us from the ancient world are those of men,” Hauser writes in a social media ...

Color in ancient Greek art was also often likely used to show gender: Men were depicted as having darker skin tones, as they customarily worked outdoors, while women were often painted white ...

Ancient Greek sculpture has fascinated the art lovers ... Kouroi were free-standing statues that represented ...