Lost in History


Painting titled 'Death Comes to the Banquet Table (Memento Mori)', showing 'Death', a skeleton, threatening people at a banquet table

This woman’s side hustle killed over 600 abusive husbands in 17th century Italy

Shannon Zheng
An image of a mountain joined by four images of a woman in Armenian clothing.

Meet Armen Ohanian, the belly dancer who defied every stereotype of a Middle Eastern woman

Camilla Selian Meeker
(A grayscale image of young Beat poet Hettie Jones) Via hettiejones.com

You probably don’t know about Hettie Jones, a crusading Beat poet

Vanessa Montalbano
An image of a stone engraved statue of Enheduanna. The image is set on a reddish, brown textured background

The world’s first author was a cool priestess with an even cooler backstory

Sahar Arshad
[Image description: Two women in history are featured side by side.] via Wikimedia Commons

6 badass women you probably didn’t learn about in school

Zara Shabir

14 trailblazing Egyptian women who made history

Amira Badawey
Native Americans

4 badass Native American women from history

Asma Elgamal