Greek Reporter8d
What Did Ancient Greeks Wear in the Winter?
What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...
PBS2mon
Women In Ancient Christianity: The New Discoveries
She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient Christianity, and Women's Studies. In the last twenty years, the history of women in ancient Christianity has been almost completely ...
The Economist3d
New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...
How Did Underwear Come Into Being? Which King Was Buried with 154 Loincloths? Some 'Inner' Facts
The ancient Romans had their own undergarments worn under tunics, togas ... men wore garments similar to boxer shorts, while ...
El País in English9d
The mysterious death of the ancient priestesses who wore 270,000 seashells
A group of archaeologists describes details of the 5,000-year-old burial of 20 women adorned with perforated beads ...
In Egypt, a piece of Jewish pottery suggests a woman’s role that was stolen from history
The inscription partly reads: “Behold, my tunic, which I left in ... in my writing elsewhere, that in ancient Israel proper, ...
Nature17d
Record-setting trove of buried beads speaks to power of ancient women
A Copper Age burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found ― enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material.
BBC5mon
What was it like to live in ancient Greece?
Young men wore short tunics, while older men preferred ... Suntans weren't cool in ancient Greece, so women put white lead on their face to make their skin pale. White lead is poisonous, so ...