22 Hilarious Jokes About About Ancient Rome That Belong In The History Books

This came as a complete shock to me, as I haven’t thought about the Roman Empire a single day in my life. But thanks to some hard-hitting journalism from my coworker and fellow BuzzFeed writer Julia, it turns out there’s actually not a huge gender divide here — women think of the Roman Empire just as often …

Scientists studied the bones of ancient women, and we might need to rethink 'women's work'

Think about the illustrations you’ve seen of men and women of the Bronze Age who lived thousands of years ago. Perhaps there’s one you recall from your elementary school text book — in which men are probably depicted hurling bronze spears and strangling lions with their bare hands, while the women are most likely pictured …