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Ancient Greece presents articles about Greek history and culture alongside maps and pictures of art, archaeological sites, and museums.

It turns out that there are some things that we humans have basically been doing since the beginning of time — like complaining and putting weed in our vaginas — and oral sex happens to be one of those hallowed, ancient traditions. Art depicting sexual acts has been found around the globe

While polytheism means the worship of many gods, henotheism means the worship of one god in many forms. This shift in understanding was extremely rare in the ancient world, and the goddess Isis and god Amun of Egypt are probably the best examples of the complete ascendancy of a deity from one-among-many to the supreme creator and …

Jan 11, 2013 · Turns out historical man (and woman) were light years ahead of us in the pleasure department. Here are 10 Sex toys with ridiculously ancient origins.

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

[…] often think that anal sex is something new, but it has practised for a long time. The Ancient Greeks loved anal sex, and still today, it seems to be very popular in Greece.

Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning ‘between two rivers’) was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast

In this next generation of storytelling, Ancient Impossible picks up where Ancient Discoveries left off and reveals how many of today’s technological achievements were actually developed centuries ago.

This is a history of same-sex unions in cultures around the world. Various types of same-sex unions have existed, ranging from informal, unsanctioned, and temporary relationships to highly ritualized unions that have included marriage.