The rare photographs of sculptures and paintings from the Harappan to the medieval era show ... and functions, both men and women wore elaborate hairstyles. Ancient texts enumerate exuberant ...

Earlier this year, another study found blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval ... left behind by ancient cultures, we can begin to understand the complex ways women and men contributed to the ...

Punishments for women, like the one that Haart describes, follow the norms of the ancient and medieval cultures ... because their intricate hairstyles seduced married men. It is difficult to ...

even despite the Ancient Greek ideal of a “bearded, long-haired philosopher,” women in that society still had longer hair than men regularly did. Roman women kept their hair long and tended to ...

If you were to conjure an image of an ancient hunter-gatherer society, you’d probably picture men as the hunters and women as the gatherers ... evidence; her hairstyle, for example, is based ...