Women of ancient Athens used clothing pins as weapons, prompting a shift in Ancient Greek fashion and societal control.

New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece. A woman places her robe in a chest in a fifth century B.C. Greek ...

ATHENS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Costumes worn by the Minoans and Mycenaeans of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece were brought to life during an experimental workshop at the National Archaeological Museum ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the expertly crafted robes of two female stone statues standing guard at the entrance of a huge Macedonian tomb, dating back to the era of Alexander the Great,under ...

Back in 2009, archaeologists at Eleutherna—an ancient city-state located on the Greek island of Crete—discovered a woman’s skeleton that showed unusual signs of wear. As Michael Price writes for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It looks, to the casual visitor, like there has been a gender-based coup in the cultural centres of Athens.