In 1903, Sir Arthur Evans, excavating at the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, discovered fragments of faience statuettes depicting female figures holding snakes. Two of these statuettes were ...

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Virginia Woolf is a renowned British novelist associated with the modernist movement in literature; her writing is characterized by experiments in language, narrative, and the treatment of time. Woolf ...

Eleanor of Aquitaine served as queen of both France and England in the twelfth century, making her one of the most powerful women of the time. Eleanor and her court were also responsible for the ...

Called the “census taker of the sky,” American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon developed a system of classifying stars based on temperature as the main distinguishing feature among the stellar spectra.

Margaret Sanger was an activist who pioneered the fight for American reproductive freedom in the early 20th century. She was born Margaret Louise Higgins, in Corning, New York, to a large Catholic ...

Laura Bassi significantly broadened the horizons of scientific culture in Enlightenment Italy. Her achievements lie less in the publication of landmark theses—in fact, she published very little—but in ...

Known as the Witch of Kilkenny, the aristocratic Alice Kyteler was one of the earliest Irish women to be accused of witchcraft. Her stepchildren, joined by the local bishop of Ossory, alleged that ...

Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest fine arts institutions in the nation. For more than thirty years, ...

Valkyries were minor female deities, descended from Germanic mythology, who served Odin, the chief god. They were charged with finding the most heroic warriors at the moment of their death and ...

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Artemisia Gentileschi was an early Italian Baroque painter, and the only female follower of Caravaggio, whom she worked with in Italy in the early 17th century. Her innovative compositions and focus ...