Stories By Lauren Dorsey
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The Link Between Shipibo Pottery and Female Identity: Designs from the Peruvian Amazon
February 9, 2021Along the Ucayali River of Northeastern Peru, women from the Shipibo-Conibo villages have been composing striking, geometric designs to cover pottery, woodcarvings, and textiles for over twelve hundred years. Each woman must design her own pattern...
Ancient Greece
Not So Dark After All: Greek Designs from the Dark Ages
January 18, 2021In the mid-12th century BCE, the grand palaces and sprawling kingdoms that had defined life in the Mediterranean began to deteriorate. Perhaps traveling marauders crippled the region’s trade routes, plagues decreased their populations, or natural disasters wreaked...
Ancient Rome
How to Identify a Roman Emperor by His Beard
January 9, 2021How many times have you walked into a museum full of statues or busts and not been able to tell one ancient sculpture from another? It can be intimidating to stand in a room of marble...
19th Century
The Top 5 Most Badass Women of Greek Mythology
December 6, 2020Most people have heard stories of the most famous Greek gods and heroes: Zeus, Poseidon, Hercules, Hades, etc. But what about the tales and woes of mythical women? Ranging from clever queens to murderous witches, this...
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