As modern life creeps into the highlands, bringing mass-produced clothes, synthetic dyes and fast fashion, the ancient craft of handloom weaving is quietly fading. The skill, once taught from mother ...

For the Chil people, a branch of the larger Cơ Ho ethnic group, weaving is not just a skill — it is a sacred inheritance. As modern life creeps into the highlands, bringing mass-produced clothes, ...

This nearly 1-meter-tall marble statue — called the "Tomb of Naiscos of a Woman Enthroned with a Consort at Her Side" — is on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. The sculpture ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

Fatima Ait Boufker and Naima Akhraze weaving the traditional rugs at the at the Aguiness rug cooperative in Taznakht, Morocco, 23 June 2025.

Is it really true that single women are happier than single men? The figures say they are and the reasons why this disparity ...