Sink your teeth into this one. Scientists have recreated the face of a 16th-century woman with a brick jammed into her mouth, an object apparently wedged there to stop her from eating the dead ...

Maddalena Casulana was the first known woman to have her music published. She is a rare example of a woman achieving ...

But in her role as a childbirth deity, known as “the great woman in labor,” she showed a kinder aspect. Today some scholars believe this statue is a fake and more likely dates to the 19th century.

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them ...