It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

Examining history, then, I think we must come to the conclusion that the Roman ideas of marriage had not a bad effect either on the happiness or morals of the women. If we take the period of Roman ...

Life in Ancient Rome may seem glamorous through the lens of historical achievements, but beneath the grandeur was a world marked by disturbing customs, questionable hygiene, and gritty realities. From ...

Wildly sexy women of Rome revealed in Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac. This revisionist history argues that the women of ancient Rome weren’t quite as nutty as some histories would have ...

Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

Women are not among the cardinals, priests and choristers handling the papal transition. But Anne Eggebroten says the patriarchal show of force going on in Rome cannot stop the concerted upward push ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the ...

Joining Kate is historian and expert in all things Ancient Rome, Emma Southon, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women, to help us explore how gender plays out in this unique area of ...