Among the many eccentricities against women in the name cultural religious and traditional was Mulakkaram or Breast Tax a tax forced upon the Dalit women of Travancore in order to cover their breasts ...

Cyrus the Great (590-529 BCE) was known as an innovative warrior and a benevolent king. He expanded the Achaemenid Dynasty to ...

In Homer’s Odyssey, composed in the 7th century BCE, Odysseus is a king. As such, he obviously has a palace of sorts on ...