The 20th century brought rapid, drastic shifts in beauty ideals, reflected in art and popular culture alike. After 1900, as women’s social roles began to change, so did the preferred image of their bodies.
Beneath Lake Ohrid, the “Pearl of the Balkans”, scientists have uncovered what may be one of Europe’s earliest sedentary communities and are trying to solve the mystery of why it sheltered behind a fortress of defensive spikes. A stretch of the Albanian