Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Evidence suggests that marriage as an institution ... Among the ancient Hebrews, men were free to take several wives; married Greek and Roman men were free to satisfy their sexual urges with ...

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Dr Joann Fletcher visits the village of Demi to try and understand more about the life of an ancient Egyptian architect ... Bundle’, which was a kind of marriage proposal. Joann then finds ...