A museum is to relabel its display about a Roman emperor after concluding that he was in fact a trans woman. North Hertfordshire Museum will now refer to emperor Elagabalus with the female pronouns of ...

Notorious for hedonism and sacrilege, the excesses of Elagabalus were too much, even for the Roman Empire. Lounging in a golden robe and crown, the Roman emperor Elagabalis looks on as his guests are ...

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Third century C.E. Roman Emperor Elagabalus was transgender, says the North Hertfordshire Museum in the U.K., which will be referring to the ruler with she/her pronouns. The change is in keeping with ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Earlier this year, a British museum said it was reclassifying an ...

A UK museum has declared a third-century Roman emperor a transgender woman — and will start referring to the ruler as “she,” even though some historians believe it is based on ancient insults. The ...

Fourteen-year-old Roman emperor Elagabalus, who ruled for four years beginning AD218, was assassinated at aged 18 (Getty Images) When in Rome, do as the womans do. The decision to swap out Ela’s ...

Teenage ruler has become genderqueer icon but historians including Mary Beard advise caution over ‘tall stories’ There are legendary dinner parties, and then there are the stories told about those ...

Was the Roman emperor Elagabalus transgender? A museum in Hitchin, a town halfway between London and Cambridge in Britain, recently changed the pronouns it used when describing an Elagabalus coin in ...