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A large silk embroidered wall hanging, worked in long and short silk stitch, with a composite imaginary view of Japan, including shrines, bridges, lakes, forests and flowers, Mount Fuji rising in the distance, within a brocade border...

Photo showing display cases and video screens at the exhibition Egyptian Mummies: Exploring Ancient Lives at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Title page from 1594 edition of Diogenes Laërtius' "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers."

Telesilla of Argos was a lyric poet of the 5th century BCE, listed by Antipater of Thesalonike (c. 15 BCE) as one of the great Nine Female Lyric Poets of Greece (along with Praxilla, Moiro, Anyte, Sappho, Erinna, Corinna, Nossis, and Myrtis...

Get to know the legend of the king known as Prester John, whose myth would impact the decisions of European leaders for 400 years. In 1165 CE, copies of a strange letter began to circulate throughout Europe. It spoke of a fantastical realm...

Lascaux Cave is a Palaeolithic cave situated in southwestern France, near the village of Montignac in the Dordogne region, which houses some of the most famous examples of prehistoric cave paintings. Close to 600 paintings – mostly of animals...

The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas (Tordesilhas) was an agreement between the monarchs of Spain and Portugal to divide the world between them into two spheres of influence. The imaginary dividing line ran down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean...

The lives of ancient Roman women and the exact roles played by them both in ancient Rome and all throughout the ancient world are pretty obscure, due to the focus of both the ancient male writers, and the nineteenth and twentieth-century...

The roles, rights and lives of women in Ancient Greece varied depending on which city-state you were from, your social class and your wealth. Women in Ancient Greece had very few rights compared to men and, due to our lack of specific information...

In Ancient Egypt, compared to many other ancient cultures, women had it pretty well off. They were fairly equal in all things except for their occupations where men were in positions of authority like part of the government, the king, a general...