The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

In sixth-century China, a woman known to history as Empress Dowager Ling ruled over an empire called the Northern Wei.

A study published in PLOS One focuses on an intriguing medieval grave found ... The team claims that several women in this period were learning archery to defend themselves and their livestock.

but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an accomplished archer and famously drove her ...

Author Maggie Anton shares why, after writing a novel set in the 20th century, she decided to write a novel set in Biblical times.

“Here is a woman who wishes to leave the viewer in no doubt as to her social standing,” Mackay said. This noble woman’s large imposing portrait is commanding a regal £225,000 ($290,900 ...

Also known as medieval football, folk football and mob ... He told the BBC he went through a house in 1982 where a woman "threw a bowl of custard at him". He later apologised.

Five final-year master of fine arts students from Warhol's alma mater contribute to the show at his namesake museum.

“All of the paintings here are copies from real medieval or early ... Other collected works in Archer’s work center on her family, history and Black women. “It’s about accumulation ...