Roughly 3,500 years ago, a woman was buried in a royal cemetery in present-day Greece. Now, we can imagine what she might ...

Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

On the west side of the Parthenon, depictions of Greek battles with the female Amazon tribes of the Euro-Asian Steppes help reveal the roles that women played in Ancient Greek society. Dr.

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...

Women came here to fill jars with water to carry home on their heads. Ancient Greek homes were built around a courtyard or garden. The walls were often made from wood and mud bricks. They had ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

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

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.