Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

A silver necklace featuring a lion figure and an eight-pointed star, believed to represent the Assyrian goddess Ishtar, has ...

Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

Archaeologists uncover a 2,600-year-old Kubaba Temple at Oluz Mound in Turkey, revealing rare evidence of Iron Age rituals.

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The Greek goddess Chimera, was a monstrous composition of disparate parts that embodied an ancient fear of females.

Udupi: A unique stone sculpture of Mahishamardini has been discovered at a dilapidated temple in Kundabarandadi village of Kundapur taluk in Udupi district. The finding was reported by noted ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

Eve has existed since the dawn of humanity, every woman, every age, every struggle. She is the indigenous woman, the pregnant ...

Two monumental pylons form the entryway to the temple of Isis at Philae, which was built by the pharaoh Ptolemy II beginning around 260 B.C. Reliefs on this pylon depict the pharaoh Ptolemy XII ...