In ancient Egypt, for instance, the 66-foot-tall lion-bodied statue that guards the Great Pyramid of Giza was likely male and designed, accordingly, as a male symbol of power.

Genesis 1 includes the phrase, “Male and female He created them,” which many readers interpret to mean that God created a man and a woman. But some of the rabbis quoted in Genesis Rabbah ...

But a recently discovered 9,000-year-old burial of a female hunter, and analyses of other hunter burials, suggests that early hunter-gatherer women in the ancient Americas hunted big game just as ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

Like any person, male or female, who lives for the adrenaline rush, World History Encyclopedia content director Joshua Mark says some of these women gladiators likely craved applause and recognition.

In ancient Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago, ... shipped the young kungas to other cities. They were costly animals, status symbols, ... the result of breeding female donkeys and male Syrian wild asses.

As ever-pragmatic Americans, the new Vatican document Male and Female He Created Them might initially disappoint. It doesn’t offer concrete policy directives or easy answers. What the document ...

Nonbinary genders beyond ‘male’ and ‘female’ would have been no surprise to ancient rabbis, who acknowledged tumtums, androgynos and aylonot Published: July 7, 2023 8:26am EDT Sarah Imhoff ...

Ancient DNA from Stone Age burials in Turkey has finally put to rest a decades-long debate about whether the 9,000-year-old proto-city of Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society. The research ...

Jewish law includes acknowledgment that not everyone fits neatly into the categories 'male' and 'female.' Mishna/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA“Genderqueer” and “nonbinary” are contemporary ...