Archaeologists at Pompeii have discovered an enormous, extremely rare wall painting depicting an ancient mystery cult, at the ...

Women’s work may not have been glamorous, but it was vital to the workings of the pope’s court and surrounding city.

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...

Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not ...