On the ancient shores of Ecuador ... Development of the fetal bones suggests the woman was 7 to 9 months pregnant. What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women. The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan, combining practical ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

Based on those images, they determined that the remains were actually those of a woman in her 20s. Additionally, they claimed she was seven months pregnant and had suffered from a form of ...