In antiquity, people did not consider themselves to be defined by such a thing as “sexuality”, and the sex of...

Situla is a bronze bucket that was very popular in the Early Iron Age and appreciated by the aristocracy in...

In antiquity, the banquets and symposiums emphasized the "internationally accepted" ritual of alcohol consumption, whose role in promoting commercialism, in...

Non-mythological erotic scenes appear frequently on a variety of Roman objects intended for daily use. These images portray a range...

What is love? We all wish to have the answer to one of the most universal, mysterious, and all-permeating phenomena...

How do we measure attitudes such as love towards children in Prehistory, Antiquity and Middle Ages? Were children highly valued,...

In Atenica near Čačak in today’s Serbia, in grave 2, located in the periphery of the impressive tumulus I, the...

Taking into consideration the premodern birth and survival rates, the most underrepresented element in the archaeological record are the burials...

There is a general perception that, in the Middle Ages, children were not valued by their families or by society...

Children were also made objects of admiration, particularly by being idealized (as “pure”) or sentimentalized (“sweet” and “funny”). This can...