A “misogynistic” sculpture depicting a woman “tied in a sack” should be removed from display, a councillor has said. Ariadne ...

Greek cities had beautiful temples with stone columns and statues, and open-air theatres ... This water jar from around 500BC shows a 'fountain-house'. Women came here to fill jars with water ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." ...

There are relatively few statues of real women across the UK – but that’s slowly beginning to change. Here, we take a look at some of the best statues celebrating female trailblazers from history.

Greek women gradually attained equality before the law over the course of the 20th century. Traditional gender roles have changed, but old habits die hard and feminists still have to speak out against ...

Then, a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, in Manchester got the Just Stop Oil treatment on Saturday 26 ...

The division of the population into distinct social classes varied across different city-states, kingdoms and polities in ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...

Denmark is to address a nationwide lack of female statues as the Ministry of Culture reveals that the capital, Copenhagen, has more statues of mythical beasts than of women. According to the ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...

The statue of the Greek god Hermes was believed to have been taken from the stately home on Monday night A large bronze statue of a Greek god has been stolen from the garden of an Elizabethan ...