NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

Researchers studying a 2,500-year-old skull discovered evidence that an ancient woman survived a sophisticated surgical procedure, shedding new light on when humans first began performing complex ...

Karen L. King is Professor of New Testament Studies and the History of Ancient Christianity at Harvard University in the Divinity School. She has published widely in the areas of Gnosticism, ancient ...

Ancient Greece had some famous priestesses who played a significant role in the religious and cultural life of the time.

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And ...

An international, interdisciplinary research team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has developed a novel method for DNA isolation from bones and ...

(Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

An obscure 19th century sketch holds the only known visual proof of women fighting wild beasts in ancient Roman arenas.