It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

Ancient Egyptians made triangular-shaped clothes of linen with strings at the ... worn by both men and women in Egypt at that ...

Her collections, worn by a clientele that included Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, featured pleated gowns that fell to the floor ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women ... although wealthy women (whose servants made their clothes) often dressed in expensive, imported fabrics, like Chinese silk or Indian ...

Women did the majority of beer brewing in ancient Egypt. The strongest beer in the world is “Snake Venom,” brewed by Scottish ...

A new book by art historian Elizabeth L. Block dives deep into the history of hairdressing and argues that the subject is ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the ... were buried with food, clothing and other items. Some archaeologists believe that the Inca mummified all their dead ...

The bronze sword was unearthed by archaeologists at an ancient fort in the Nile Delta. It was emblazoned with the signature ...

And lapis lazuli—a stone that has been used in art, jewelry, and ancient cultures as far back as 7,500 B.C.E.—is perhaps the ...

Some readers, when looking closely at the Egyptian paintings in the tomb of the scribe Nebamun, might be surprised by the ...

She took symbols from ancient cultures and translated them into intricate embroideries, beadings and paintings on clothes ...

In ancient Egypt, money didn't exist. So people were paid with things like sacks of grain. And as well as making bread with it, they could also use some of the grain to exchange for clothes ...