Exploring the historical context of gender nonconformity and its implications on modern-day transgender rights.

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The Egyptian Empire was one of the most powerful in the world in its day, thanks in no small part to a host of inventions.

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Items such as writing tablets, styluses — even ancient trash — could offer glimpses ... This is the heart of Rome in London, where all the decisions were made." Elsewhere in England ...

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Hygiene and health in ancient Greece and Rome were certainly advanced for their time ... Bill Hayes, in his book Sweat: A History of Exercise delved into this curious practice, writing how this ...

The Greeks had used a writing system called Linear B, but this disappeared with the Bronze Age Collapse. The ancient Greek Dark Ages continued ... 750 BC, a possible Greek colony was established at ...

Scientists have digitally "unwrapped" a 2,000-year-old charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum - providing the first glimpse inside the ancient document since it was buried by Mount Vesuvius ...