From blush and perfume to hair removal and curls, many modern beauty habits have roots in rituals women practiced centuries ...

A medical papyrus from ancient Egypt describes a pregnancy test that used a woman’s urine on bags of barley and wheat to ...

Ancient Egypt treated royal women very differently from most other ancient societies. Because kingship was tied to divine ...

Women in ancient Egypt did not appear to hold markedly lower social status than men. In domestic life and marriage, women often played active and visible roles.

When it was made: Circa 1425 to 1353 B.C. In 1906, archaeologists discovered this wig of an Egyptian woman known as Merit when excavating her tomb, which she shared with her husband Kha, in Luxor ...

Ancient Greece and Egypt shaped each other through trade, religion, mythology, art, and politics long before Alexander and ...