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Elite companions, flute girls and child slaves: sex work in ancient Athens

Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle In our sexual histories series, authors explore changing sexual mores from antiquity to today. When

Mariacarmela Montesanto, University of Liverpool The legendary ancient city of Troy is very much in the limelight this year: a

Daniel Falk, Pennsylvania State University Leer en español. The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has removed five Dead

Chapurukha Kusimba, American University Sometimes you run across a grimy, tattered dollar bill that seems like it’s been around since

The death of Delia Green has come down to us in legendary verse from Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash. How

Philippa Langley, who is president of the Richard III society, had an overwhelming feeling she was walking on the grave

In the history of mathematics, the concept of the number zero is a real revolution and has only been discovered

The story of the burning bush and Moses’s experience with God is very well known but some people think the

Archaeologists discovered a giant wall in Iran without any historical reference. Who built it and why?

Ancient Egyptians mummified everything from humans to crocodiles to cats. They mummified one thing more than anything else though, birds.