Hiereiai (singular: hiereia) was the title of the female priesthood or priestesses in ancient Greece. According to the ...

A woman named Hipparchia shocked Ancient Greece by attacking societal norms with public sex and radical philosophy in Athens.

Once a cover for closeted Hollywood stars and persecuted LGBTQ+ people, lavender marriages got a Gen Z reboot, offering ...

Across ancient civilizations, law often carried a strangeness that feels almost unbelievable today. Weird rules shaped the ...

Storm returns in a new Marvel Comics series in February 2026, Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #1 by Murewa Ayodele.

Many of the Bible's books forbid sexual acts such as adultery, fornication and polygamy - here are seven others.

Marvel at some incredible archaeological discoveries uncovered by ordinary folk... When South Bridge was built to cross a ...

Each month has at least one gemstone. Here is what you need to know about August's birthstones: peridot, spinel and sardonyx.

Fundamentalists were angered in 1973 when the Supreme Court confirmed the right to abortion and the rights of the LGBTQ community to live life as they ...

As the Romantic movement reached its crescendo across Europe in the early nineteenth century, few collaborations seemed as unlikely – and as fruitful – as that between Lord Byron, the scion of Eng ...

In college, he studied Greek, Latin, Akkadian, Ancient Ethiopian, Syriac ... Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century. Dept.