Human Interest Alexander The Great’s tunic uncovered at ancient burial site — a few millennia after the fact By Alex Mitchell Published Oct. 31, 2024, 8:01 p.m. ET ...

And now, 50 pairs of these tweezers—along with other ancient grooming tools—are on display at a museum in Wroxeter, a city in Roman Britain once home to as many as 15,000 residents.

These ancient artifacts reveal the untold stories and everyday lives of women in the ill-fated Roman city. A fresco exhibited in the exhibition "Being a Woman in Ancient Pompeii" in Pompeii, Italy.

Like all women of their time, Asellina and Zmyrina could not vote. But they found influence in their own ways. Asellina owned a popular thermopolium on a bustling corner of ancient Pompeii, where ...

Published: July 16, 2024 11:35pm EDT You might have heard of a group of women in Ancient Rome known as the “Vestal Virgins”.

Many Ancient Roman sources speak of female drinking and adultery concurrently. In 2 BCE, Julia, daughter of Emperor Augustus, was exiled from Rome by her father on the grounds of her adulterous ...

Vindolanda's collection of 5,000 shoes is the largest found at a single site in the Roman Empire. Women and children's footwear (like this baby's bootie) sheds light on the army communities.