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body paintings by Karen Turner

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An Aymara Indigenous priest raises her hands as an offering burns for the "Pachamama," or Mother Earth, during a ceremony marking Earth Day in La Paz, Bolivia, Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

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Herwebenkhet, Chantress of Amun, prostrates herself before the god Geb in the form of a crocodile and drinks from the waters that will unite her with the gods and assure safe passage to the afterlife.

The strongly built shape of the body of the deceased exemplifies a new image for the female figure in this period. It contrasts with the slender images that were in vogue earlier.

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, c. 1069-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. SR 19325 Read more

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Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (1997)

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Grieving woman, Canosa, Southeastern Italy, 3rd century BCE, terracotta.

There are a lot of gorgeous Mediterranean works in the San Antonio Museum of Art's collection, but this is one of my favorites. I love how expressive it is: the outstretched hands, the brows knit down in pain, the eyes beseeching heaven.

This statue would have originally been placed in an underground tomb (hypogeum), at a time when Rome was steadily taking over Canosa and the rest of Italy. But this woman is sculpted in a Canosan style, not Roman, for a Canosan family. I can't help but feel like the faded paint and mottled clay actually enhances the art's message, like she's reaching out to us 2200 years later and saying, "This is who we are. Remember us."

The Roman empire was a lot more than just the Romans.

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Vanessa Stockard (Australian, b.1975)

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Girls in frangipani blossoms swirling in a frenzied dance | Eliot Elisofon | The LIFE Picture Collection

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Pictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.

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Resistance Is Not Futile:

On this day, 19 April 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jewish people fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp.

2000 German troops and police backed up with tanks entered the ghetto with the intention of removing the surviving residents, and were met by around 750 resistance fighters with a small number of smuggled small arms and some home-made Molotov cocktails. They forced the Germans to retreat and come back with reinforcements. After several days of failure to overcome the rebels, the Germans began burning down the entire ghetto one building at a time.

Despite this, the resistance managed to hold out against the onslaught for 27 days, killing around 300 Germans. While some fighters managed to escape through the sewers, 7000 Jewish people were killed and another 7000 eventually deported to Treblinka.

Pictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.

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How the Nomadic Women of Chad Are Keeping the Ancient Hair-Care Ritual of Chébé Alive

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The most obvious means by which a queen might exercise influence at court was through her close contact with the king in much the same way as other nobles did, although the nature of such influence is impossible to judge because it does not leave records behind. That women would advise their husbands, even kings, was accepted and expected: Christine de Pizan maintained that the wise princess would urge her husband to discuss matters with his councillors, and encourage others to advise him. Jacobus de Cessolis, recognizing that queens would thereby be privy to important matters of state, advised that a queen's 'wysedom ought tappere in spekynge that is to wete that she be secrete and telle not such thynges as ought to be holden secrete'. Queens were of course not exempt from the traditional misogynistic fear of the power of women's words to lure men, as Eve had done, into sin and folly. The fourteenth-century author of The III Consideracions Right Necesserye to the Good Governaunce of a Prince warned

And how be it that a kinge or Prince shulde love his lady and wyf in maner as him self, yit it is nat expedient that he uttyr unto hir, and discloosc the sccrccs, grcctc conscillcs and greet thingcs that he hath doon for his estate and for his landc, nc that in such thing he be governed aftir hir at som tymc, but he shulde allc daycs reserve unto him self the lordship and souvereyntee, or ellys many perilles may betide.

But to be governed was not the same as to be advised and there was also a strong tradition and rich literature of women wisely advising their husbands at all levels of society. This included encouraging a husband to make peace with his subjects or to be more generous to the poor or the Church as well as the familiar motif of intercession in response to a particular plea.

-J.L. Laynesmith, "The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503"